Lysander Spooner: “And the right is practically established only when and because the…”

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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that the right of revolution is only established when the government no longer exists to challenge it.

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Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

Lysander Spooner: “And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.”