It does not tell us that this right of individual liberty rests upon an immutable, natural principle, which no human power can make, unmake, or alter; nor that all human authority, that claims to set it aside, or modify it, is nothing but falsehood, absurdity, usurpation, tyranny, and crime.
Spooner argues that individual liberty is based on immutable natural principles.
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It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance 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.