Lysander Spooner: “Therefore the very idea of a lawmaking government necessarily implies a denial of all such things as individual liberty…”

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

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…

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.