Lysander Spooner: “If he did see this force and authority, but chose to trample them…”

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If he did see this force and authority, but chose to trample them under his feet, he was a perjured tyrant and traitor.

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Lysander Spooner

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He condemns Marshall as a traitor if he knowingly ignored the constitutional authority of the ninth amendment.

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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

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

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

Lysander Spooner: “If he did see this force and authority, but chose to trample them under his feet, he was a perjured tyrant and traitor.”