Lysander Spooner: “Of course we can have no courts of justice, under such systems of lawmaking, and supreme court decisions, as now…”

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

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