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And all contracts whatsoever, for such a purpose, are necessarily absurd and void contracts.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “And all contracts whatsoever, for such a purpose, are necessarily absurd and void contracts.”
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Spooner declares that contracts that attempt to delegate natural rights are invalid.
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