On the record
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.orgLysander Spooner: “On the contrary, they show us what farces and impostures these judicial opinions--or decisions, as they call them--are.”
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Spooner critiques the legitimacy of judicial opinions, suggesting they are often mere farces.
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They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.