Lysander Spooner: “They mutually sustain each other; and neither can stand without the other.”

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

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

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.

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