But it is distinctly visible to the political and financial eye; that is, to that class of men, for whom governments exist, and who own congresses and courts, and set in motion armies and navies, whenever they can promote their own interests by doing so.
In this quote, Spooner highlights the interests of a powerful class that manipulates government for their gain.
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A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.