It says that if the power to make laws, and the power also to enforce them, were committed to these agents, they would have all power, would be absolute masters of the people, and could deprive them of their rights at pleasure.
Spooner argues that if agents have the power to make and enforce laws, they could become tyrannical.
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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.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.