Lysander Spooner: “If they command or license any man to do injustice, they are criminal on their face.”

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

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.

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

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.