Lysander Spooner: “It requires only thoughtfulness and a good conscience.”

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.

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.

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.