We see, then, that it is no more than a literal truth, that out of that single instrument, as it now stands, without altering the location of a single word, might be formed, by construction and interpretation, more different constitutions than figures can well estimate.
Spooner claims that the current constitution can yield countless interpretations without changing its wording.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
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