Furthermore, this extreme poverty, in which the laborers are to be kept, necessarily implies that they are to receive no larger share of the proceeds of their own labor, than is necessary to keep them in a condition to labor.
He highlights that keeping laborers in extreme poverty limits their share of the fruits of their labor to just what is necessary for survival.
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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.