Yes, they lie under still another condemnation, to wit, that their courts are not only courts of injustice, but they are also secret tribunals; adjudicating all causes according to the secret instructions of their masters, the lawmakers, and their authorized interpreters, their supreme courts.
Spooner condemns the secretive nature of tribunals that operate outside public scrutiny.
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From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.