On the record
This policy of excluding foreign commodities from our markets, is a game that all other governments can play at, as well as our own.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “This policy of excluding foreign commodities from our markets, is a game that all other governments can play at, as well…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner warns that protectionist policies can be adopted by any government, not just the U.S.
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They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.