Lysander Spooner: “That is one of the many frauds on the Common Law, and the English constitution, which have been introduced since Magna…”

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

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.

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.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.