On the record
What that principle is, I repeat, which they have all sworn to sustain, and on which the real validity, or invalidity, of every contract on which they ever adjudicate, depends?
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner demands clarity on the principle that underlies the validity of contracts adjudicated by courts.
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