If we ever should have courts of justice, it is easy to see what will become of statute books, supreme courts, trial by battle, and all the other machinery of fraud and tyranny, by which the world is now ruled.
Spooner predicts that true courts of justice would dismantle current systems of fraud and tyranny.
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