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Lysander Spooner: Courts of justice, for all civil suits, are as effectually shut against them, as though it were done by bolts and bars.

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Courts of justice, for all civil suits, are as effectually shut against them, as though it were done by bolts and bars.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that civil courts effectively deny justice to many individuals.

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