Lysander Spooner: “But the obligation of a contract to pay money is to pay that which the law shall recognize as money when the payment is…”

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.