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The same sources of knowledge on the subject are open to the people that are open to the legislators, and the people must be presumed to know it as well as they.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “The same sources of knowledge on the subject are open to the people that are open to the legislators, and the people…”
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Spooner asserts that the public has access to the same knowledge of natural law as legislators.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.