Lysander Spooner: “The government recognizes no such thing as any natural right of…”

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The government recognizes no such thing as any natural right of property, on the part of individuals.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner asserts that the government does not recognize individuals' natural property rights.

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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

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

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

Lysander Spooner: “The government recognizes no such thing as any natural right of property, on the part of individuals.”