This taking of a man's property, without his consent, is a denial of his right of property; for the right of property is the right of supreme, absolute, and irresponsible dominion over anything that is naturally a subject of property,--that is, of ownership.
Spooner defines property rights as absolute dominion over one's possessions.
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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.