It has asserted the arbitrary power of congress to abolish all men's right to make their own contracts, by asserting its power to alter the meaning of all contracts, after they are made, so as to make them widely, or wholly, different from what the parties had made them.
Spooner argues that Congress can alter contracts post facto, undermining their original terms.
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But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.