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I cannot delegate to A any right to make laws--that is, laws of his own invention--and compel Z to obey them.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgI cannot delegate to A any right to make laws--that is, laws of his own invention--and compel Z to obey them.
Spooner illustrates the impossibility of delegating law-making rights to another individual.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.