Lysander Spooner: “And why have they not told us how false, absurd, and tyrannical are all these lawmaking governments?”

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

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

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.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.