Lysander Spooner: “It would give congress power arbitrarily to control, obstruct, impede, derange, prohibit, and destroy commerce.”

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

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

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.