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Lysander Spooner: If this is not asserting the right of congress to abolish altogether men's natural right to make their own contracts…

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If this is not asserting the right of congress to abolish altogether men's natural right to make their own contracts, what is it?
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner questions the legitimacy of Congress's power to abolish individuals' rights to contract.

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