Lysander Spooner: “It, and the State governments--all but parts of one and the same…”

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It, and the State governments--all but parts of one and the same system--were rotten with tyranny and crime.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner describes the interconnectedness of state and federal governments, both plagued by tyranny and crime.

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Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

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

Lysander Spooner: “It, and the State governments--all but parts of one and the same system--were rotten with tyranny and crime.”