The legal effect of these constitutional recognitions of the right of individuals to defend their property, liberties, and lives, ' against the government, is to legalize resistance to all injustice and oppression, of every name and nature whatsoever, on the part of the government.
Spooner explains that constitutional recognition of the right to defend against government injustice legitimizes resistance.
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Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.