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Or have they, too, been perjured tyrants and traitors?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Or have they, too, been perjured tyrants and traitors?”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner raises the possibility that judges may also be guilty of betrayal if they have knowingly ignored the ninth amendment.
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