Lysander Spooner: “Hence tyrants frequently yield to the demands of justice from those weaker than themselves, as a means of buying peace…”

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

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.

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…

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.