Lysander Spooner: “But if that principle were a true one in behalf of three millions of…”

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But if that principle were a true one in behalf of three millions of men, it is an equally true one in behalf of three men, or of one man.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that the principle of consent applies universally, regardless of the number of people involved.

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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

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

One answer is, that this power, which juries have of judging of the law, is not a power of absolute decision in all cases.

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

Lysander Spooner: “But if that principle were a true one in behalf of three millions of men, it is an equally true one in behalf of three…”