All this talk of the court is equivalent to asserting that congress has the right to alter men's contracts at pleasure, after they are made, and make them over into something, or anything, wholly different from what the parties themselves had made them.
Spooner critiques the idea that Congress can arbitrarily change the terms of contracts after they are made.
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Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
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.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.