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Be sides, when the suffrage is exercised, it gives no guaranty for the repeal of existing laws that are oppressive, and no security against the enactment of new ones that are equally so.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Be sides, when the suffrage is exercised, it gives no guaranty for the repeal of existing laws that are oppressive, and…”
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Spooner points out that exercising the right to vote does not guarantee the repeal of oppressive laws or prevent new ones from being enacted.
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