Lysander Spooner: “These are the bases on which the trial by jury places the property, liberty, and rights of every individual.”

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

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.