On the record
This government had been imposed, by a few property holders, upon a people too poor, too scattered, and many of them too ignorant, to resist.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “This government had been imposed, by a few property holders, upon a people too poor, too scattered, and many of them too…”
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Spooner argues that the government was imposed on a vulnerable population by a small group of property holders.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
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