Lysander Spooner: “The whole object of the fraud is to secure to the government the…”

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The whole object of the fraud is to secure to the government the authority of making lawsthat never ought to be known.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that the purpose of the fraud in legislation is to give the government undue law-making power.

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That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.

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.

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

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

Lysander Spooner: “The whole object of the fraud is to secure to the government the authority of making lawsthat never ought to be known.”