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They are a denial of men's right to make any contracts whatever, except such as the governments shall see fit to permit them to make.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “They are a denial of men's right to make any contracts whatever, except such as the governments shall see fit to permit…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner emphasizes the importance of individual rights in contract-making without government interference.
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In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
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.
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