The power itself is a frivolous one, of little or no utility; for the weighing and assaying of metals is a thing so easily done, and can be done by so many different persons, that there is certainly no necessity for its being done at all by a government.
Spooner critiques the necessity of government involvement in weighing and assaying metals for currency.
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