The answer to this objection is, that, since Magna Carta, judges have had more than six centuries in which to invent and promulgate pretended maxims to suit themselves; and this is one of them.
Spooner critiques the historical evolution of legal maxims as tools for judicial manipulation.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.