Lysander Spooner: “It is therefore a first principle, a very sine qua non of political freedom, that a man can be taxed only by his…”

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.