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Such a contract would be an absurd and void contract, utterly destitute of all legal or moral obligation.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Such a contract would be an absurd and void contract, utterly destitute of all legal or moral obligation.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner states that contracts attempting to delegate natural liberty are void and lack obligation.
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They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.