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And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner asserts that individuals cannot be expected to have more legal knowledge than what is typical for their peers.
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They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.