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Substantially all their lawmaking proceeds upon this theory; for there is no other theory, on which they can find any justification whatever for any lawmaking at all.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Substantially all their lawmaking proceeds upon this theory; for there is no other theory, on which they can find any…”
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Spooner critiques the foundational principles of lawmaking in his time.
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They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
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