Therefore the tax laid upon foreign commodities, that have been bought with the products of our home labor, is as much a robbery of the home laborer, as the same tax would have been, if laid directly upon the products of our home labor.
Spooner equates taxes on foreign goods to robbery of domestic laborers.
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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
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