But we have everywhere courts of injustice--open and avowed injustice--claiming sole jurisdiction of all cases affecting men's rights of both person and property; and having at their beck brute force enough to compel absolute submission to their decrees, whether just or unjust.
Spooner highlights the existence of unjust courts that enforce their decrees through force.
Share
More from Lysander Spooner
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.