It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.
Spooner asserts that the only security against government tyranny is through forcible resistance.
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In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
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…
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.