Lysander Spooner: “They usually go into courts of justice, so called, only as men go into…”

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They usually go into courts of justice, so called, only as men go into battle when there is no alternative left for them.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner compares entering courts to going into battle, highlighting the desperation of those seeking justice.

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The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

Lysander Spooner: “They usually go into courts of justice, so called, only as men go into battle when there is no alternative left for…”