On the record
The dealings of men with men, their separate possessions, and their individual wants, are continually forcing upon their minds the questions, Is this act just? or is it unjust?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgThe dealings of men with men, their separate possessions, and their individual wants, are continually forcing upon their minds the questions, Is this act just? or is it unjust?
Spooner highlights that human interactions prompt fundamental questions of justice.
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All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.