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The law of justice is just as supreme and universal in the moral world, as these others are in the mental or physical world; and is as unalterable as are these by any human power.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “The law of justice is just as supreme and universal in the moral world, as these others are in the mental or physical…”
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Spooner equates the law of justice with other natural laws, asserting its universality and immutability.
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