And it would undoubtedly have been far better if all coins--whether coined by governments or individuals--had all been made into pieces bearing simply the names of pounds, ounces, pennyweights, etc., and containing just the amounts of pure metal described by those weights.
Spooner suggests that coins should simply reflect their metal content rather than government branding.
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And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.