Lysander Spooner: “The judges, without assuming to themselves a legislative power, cannot put a new sense upon them, other than according…”

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

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

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

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…