All the State laws, that do now forbid, or that have heretofore forbidden married women to make any or all contracts, that they are, or were, mentally competent to make reasonably, are violations of their natural right to make their own contracts.
Spooner condemns laws that prevent married women from making contracts they are competent to enter.
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