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And this is equivalent to denying all men's right to make their own contracts, or to acquire any contract rights, which congress may not afterward, at pleasure, alter, or abolish.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner emphasizes that allowing Congress to alter contracts undermines individual rights to contract.
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