Lysander Spooner: “If they forbid any man to do anything, which justice would permit him…”

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If they forbid any man to do anything, which justice would permit him to do, they are criminal invasions of his natural and rightful liberty.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that forbidding actions that justice allows is a violation of natural rights.

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

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

Lysander Spooner: “If they forbid any man to do anything, which justice would permit him to do, they are criminal invasions of his natural…”