And as it is naturally impossible that they can invent any law of their own, that shall not conflict with the law of justice, it is naturally impossible that they can make a law--that is, a law of their own invention--that shall not violate "our liberty.
Spooner argues that any law invented by lawmakers will conflict with justice and liberty.
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Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.