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In the latter case, they are positive violations of men's rights.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “In the latter case, they are positive violations of men's rights.”
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Spooner claims that laws that violate rights are fundamentally unjust.
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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.