Lysander Spooner: “Is it too much to hope for mankind, that they may sometime have courts…”

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Is it too much to hope for mankind, that they may sometime have courts of justice, instead of such courts of injustice as these?

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner expresses hope for a future with true courts of justice rather than corrupt ones.

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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

Lysander Spooner: “Is it too much to hope for mankind, that they may sometime have courts of justice, instead of such courts of injustice…”