Lysander Spooner: “If their laws command anything but justice, or forbid anything but injustice, they are themselves unjust and criminal.”

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.