Lysander Spooner: “And these are questions of natural law; questions, which, in regard to the great mass of cases, are answered alike by…”

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

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

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.