Lysander Spooner: “There is nothing definite, nothing real, nothing tangible, nothing honest, about them.”

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

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