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And yet this colossal crime--like every other crime that congress chooses to commit--is sanctioned by its servile, rotten, and stinking court.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner condemns Congress and the courts for sanctioning what he sees as a monumental crime against the public.
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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.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.
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