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And being their tool for this gigantic robbery, it is equally their tool for all the lesser robberies, to which it is supposed that the people at large can be made to submit.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “And being their tool for this gigantic robbery, it is equally their tool for all the lesser robberies, to which it is…”
Editor's note · Context
He argues that the government acts as a tool for the money monopoly, facilitating broader acts of theft against the populace.
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Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
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.
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.