And my answer is, that from the moment it is conceded that any man, or body of men, whatever, under any pretence whatever, have the right to make laws of their own invention, and compel other men to obey them, every vestige of man's natural and rightful liberty is denied him.
Spooner argues that the right to create laws denies natural liberty.
Share
More from Lysander Spooner
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
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.
There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.