Were the words themselves the law, each single written law would be liable to embrace many different laws, to wit, as many different laws as there were different senses, and different combinations of senses, in which each and all the words were capable of being taken.
Spooner illustrates the ambiguity of written laws due to the multiple interpretations of words.
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Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?