The natural right of all men to make all contracts whatsoever, that are naturally and intrinsically just and lawful, furnishes the pre-existing rule, by which alone commerce can be regulated.
Spooner emphasizes the importance of natural rights in regulating commerce.
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Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
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…
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.