Lysander Spooner: “It is recognized all over the world--at least as far as it is known--as the one only true obligation, that any, or all…”

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

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

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…

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