Lysander Spooner: “Congress has evidently just as much right to increase the value of the dollar, after a contract has been made, as it has…”

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

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.

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

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).