Lysander Spooner: “It is perfectly self-evident that where there is no legal right to resist the oppression of the government, there can be…”

The people are no more arrayed against themselves, when a jury puts its veto upon a statute, which the other tribunals have sanctioned, than they are when the same veto is exercised by the representatives, the senate, the executive, or the…

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.