Lysander Spooner: “Yet the advocates of arbitrary legislation are continually practising the fraud of pretending that unless the…”

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

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

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.