Therefore the assertion, by the government, of a right to prohibit, or qualify, any one of them, is equivalent to a denial of all natural right, on the part of individuals, to make any of them.
This quote encapsulates Spooner's argument that government assertions of control deny individual rights universally.
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It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.