Lysander Spooner: “It is a scandal and an outrage, that government should suffer itself…”

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It is a scandal and an outrage, that government should suffer itself to be made an instrument, in this way, for the gratification of private malice.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner expresses outrage at the government's role in facilitating personal vendettas through the legal system.

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The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

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