Lysander Spooner: “And they can keep control of other men's labor only by depriving the…”

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And they can keep control of other men's labor only by depriving the laborers themselves of all other means of subsistence.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that control over laborers is maintained by depriving them of alternative means of subsistence.

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The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

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