Lysander Spooner: “And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.”

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

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.

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