Lysander Spooner: “The dealings of men with men, their separate possessions, and their individual wants, are continually forcing upon their…”

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

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.

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 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.