Lysander Spooner: “And substantially all the industrial and financial troubles of that…”

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And substantially all the industrial and financial troubles of that period have been the natural consequences of the monopoly.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner critiques the economic monopolies of his time, linking them to broader industrial and financial issues.

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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

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

Lysander Spooner: “And substantially all the industrial and financial troubles of that period have been the natural consequences of the…”