Things have pretty much been downhill since then.
No victim? No crime. When we started letting the Law itself stand as accuser/victim, we lost that whole "justice" thing we were once so proud of.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. - Thomas Jefferson
thanks DC for this quote, and to you both for realizing that our Rights must be defended every time, not just when its convenient...