Lysander Spooner: “Nearly all persons, male and female, are mentally competent to make…”

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Nearly all persons, male and female, are mentally competent to make reasonable contracts, long before they are twenty-one years of age.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner claims that most individuals are capable of making reasonable contracts before turning twenty-one.

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It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

Lysander Spooner: “Nearly all persons, male and female, are mentally competent to make reasonable contracts, long before they are…”