To pursue these topics further would exclude other matters of great importance, as showing how the government acts the part of robber and tyrant in all its legislation on contracts; and that the whole purpose of all its acts is that the earnings of the many may be put into the pockets of the few.
Spooner critiques government actions that favor the wealthy at the expense of the many.
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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.
It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.