Lysander Spooner: “If laws were to be received by them on the authority of these officers, the latter would have imposed such laws upon the…”

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

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…

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.