Lysander Spooner: “The prohibition, or qualification, of any one of these contracts--that are intrinsically just and lawful--is a denial of…”

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

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

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