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And being bound together by no honest tie, and existing for no honest purpose, destruction was the only honest doom to which any of them were entitled.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner critiques the legitimacy of government by stating that it is bound by no honest ties or purposes.
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It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.