Lysander Spooner: “Why have they not told us what impostors and tyrants all these so-called lawmakers, judges, etc., etc., are?”

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.