Lysander Spooner: “It would hardly be extravagant to say, that, in nine cases in ten, men…”

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It would hardly be extravagant to say, that, in nine cases in ten, men learn it before they have learned the language by which we describe it.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner suggests that men often learn natural law intuitively before they learn the language to describe it.

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

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

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