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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.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner critiques the justifications for the doctrine of ignorance of the law as being fundamentally flawed.
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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.