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Yet the advocates of arbitrary legislation are continually practising the fraud of pretending that unless the legislature make the laws, the laws will not be known.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner criticizes the misleading arguments of those who support arbitrary legislation.
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All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
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