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The written law, then, even where it can be construed consistently with the natural, introduces labor and obscurity, instead of shutting them out.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “The written law, then, even where it can be construed consistently with the natural, introduces labor and obscurity…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner asserts that written law complicates understanding rather than clarifying it.
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When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.
On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.