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Such a law is plainly a law impairing the natural obligation of their contracts.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Such a law is plainly a law impairing the natural obligation of their contracts.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner identifies laws that impair contractual obligations as fundamentally flawed, emphasizing the importance of contract integrity.
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