Lysander Spooner: “The only real right of property, that is known to mankind, is the…”

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The only real right of property, that is known to mankind, is the natural right.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner asserts that the only legitimate form of property rights is rooted in natural rights.

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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

Lysander Spooner: “The only real right of property, that is known to mankind, is the natural right.”