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And this is equivalent to saying that governments have all power, and the people no rights.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “And this is equivalent to saying that governments have all power, and the people no rights.”
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This statement emphasizes the belief that governments possess absolute power while citizens have none.
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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.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.