Lysander Spooner: “Is it any wonder that all men live in constant terror of such a government as that?”

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…

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?