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On the contrary, they show us what farces and impostures these judicial opinions--or decisions, as they call them--are.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgOn the contrary, they show us what farces and impostures these judicial opinions--or decisions, as they call them--are.
Spooner critiques the legitimacy of judicial opinions, suggesting they are often mere farces.
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And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
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