Political Quotes

Lysander Spooner: I cannot delegate to A any right to make laws--that is, laws of his own invention--and compel Z to obey them.

On the record
I cannot delegate to A any right to make laws--that is, laws of his own invention--and compel Z to obey them.
Said by
Lysander Spooner

Editor's note · Context

Spooner illustrates the impossibility of delegating law-making rights to another individual.

Share

More from Lysander Spooner

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

gutenberg.org

In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

gutenberg.org

They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

gutenberg.org

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

gutenberg.org