The fact, then, that his laws were not authoritative with the people, is proof that they were not authoritative with the tribunals in other words, that they were not, as matter of course, enforced by the tribunals.
Spooner claims that the lack of enforcement of the king's laws by tribunals indicates their lack of authority over the people.
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A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.