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Political liberty is liberty for the weaker party in a nation.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgPolitical liberty is liberty for the weaker party in a nation.
Spooner defines political liberty as the protection of the weaker party in society.
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Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
Practically speaking, no government knows any limits to its power, except the endurance of the people.
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 will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.