Lysander Spooner: “In short, it is nothing but downright robbery.”

Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.

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

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.