On the record
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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For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.
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