On the record
If their laws had been received as authoritative, in the manner that legislative enactments are at this day, they would have been making laws continually.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “If their laws had been received as authoritative, in the manner that legislative enactments are at this day, they would…”
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Spooner suggests that if kings' laws were truly authoritative, they would have enacted them more frequently.
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