Would temporary laders, limited in their powers, and unprovided in resources, ever think to usurp an authority over warriors, who considered themselves as their equals, were impatient of control, and attached with devoted zeal to their privileges?
Spooner questions whether temporary leaders could ever truly dominate warriors who value their freedom and equality.
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They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…
When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?