Theoretically, every dollar's worth of material property, that is capable of being taken by law, and applied to the payment of the owner's debts, is capable of being represented by a promissory note, that shall circulate as money.
Spooner theorizes that promissory notes could serve as effective money if they are backed by material property.
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They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.