Lysander Spooner: “Is it too much to hope for mankind, that they may sometime have courts…”

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Is it too much to hope for mankind, that they may sometime have courts of justice, instead of such courts of injustice as these?

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner expresses hope for a future with true courts of justice rather than corrupt ones.

More from Lysander Spooner

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

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

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

Lysander Spooner: “Is it too much to hope for mankind, that they may sometime have courts of justice, instead of such courts of injustice…”