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This policy of excluding foreign commodities from our markets, is a game that all other governments can play at, as well as our own.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “This policy of excluding foreign commodities from our markets, is a game that all other governments can play at, as well…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner warns that protectionist policies can be adopted by any government, not just the U.S.
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The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
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.