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And as soon as they are mentally competent to make reasonable contracts, they have the same natural right to make them, that they ever can have.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “And as soon as they are mentally competent to make reasonable contracts, they have the same natural right to make them…”
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Spooner asserts that once individuals are mentally competent, they have the right to contract.
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