Lysander Spooner: “If you were now required to name such a lawmaker, I think you would search our history in vain to find him.”

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

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

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.