Lysander Spooner: “If, therefore, you really intend to continue this system of lawmaking, it seems indispensable that you should explain to…”

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

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.

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.