Lysander Spooner: “Yet that idea has been an entire delusion, unless the jury have had the right to judge of the justice of the laws they…”

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.