It is, therefore, right that the weaker party should be represented in the tribunal which is finally to determine what legislation may be enforced; and that no legislation shall be enforced against their consent.
Spooner asserts the necessity of representation for the weaker party in legislative decisions.
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When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
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.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.