Lysander Spooner: “Plainly labor cannot be free, unless the laborers are free to hire all the money capital that is necessary for their…”

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…