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In the American State constitutions also, this right of resistance to the oppressions of the government is recognized, in various ways, as a natural, legal, and constitutional right.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “In the American State constitutions also, this right of resistance to the oppressions of the government is recognized…”
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Spooner notes that many state constitutions recognize the right to resist government oppression.
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Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.
One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.
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.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.