Lysander Spooner: “This right is included in his natural right to maintain justice between man and man, and to protect the injured party…”

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

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.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.