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Lysander Spooner: And these separate, individual rights all rest upon, and can be ascertained only by, the one science of justice.

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And these separate, individual rights all rest upon, and can be ascertained only by, the one science of justice.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner states that individual rights can only be understood through the science of justice.

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