It does not tell us that individual liberty means freedom from all compulsion to do anything whatever, except what justice requires us to do, and freedom to do everything whatever that justice permits us to do.
Spooner defines individual liberty as freedom constrained only by justice.
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When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.