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But for this right of resistance, on the part of the people, all governments would become tyrannical to a degree of which few people are aware.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner warns that without the right to resist, governments would inevitably become tyrannical.
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In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.