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This is proved by the fact that it takes, for its own uses, any and every man's property--when it pleases, and as much of it as it pleases--without obtaining, or even asking, his consent.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner illustrates how the government appropriates property without consent, violating rights.
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It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.