Lysander Spooner: “It requires, for example, more capacity to make a reasonable contract in the purchase of a large estate, than in the…”

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.