Lysander Spooner: “What is here said so plainly and forcibly of the oath and obligations of grand juries, is equally applicable to the oath…”

Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

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?

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.