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It is hardly possible that any other cause should be adequate to produce such an effect; because justice comes very near to being a self-evident principle.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “It is hardly possible that any other cause should be adequate to produce such an effect; because justice comes very near…”
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Spooner suggests that justice is fundamentally understood and should be self-evident.
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