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You hold your place only by a title, which, on no just principle of law or reason, is worth a straw.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgYou hold your place only by a title, which, on no just principle of law or reason, is worth a straw.
Spooner argues that the title held by government officials is unjustifiable and worthless.
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And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.