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So, too, every man has, by nature, a right to judge of, and enforce, the rights, and judge of, and redress the wrongs, of any and all other men.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “So, too, every man has, by nature, a right to judge of, and enforce, the rights, and judge of, and redress the wrongs…”
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Spooner states that every individual has the right to judge and enforce the rights of others.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.