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

Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…