If one man commit a trespass upon the person, property or character of another, the injured party has a natural right, either to chastise the aggressor, or to take compensation for the injury out of his property.
Spooner emphasizes the natural rights of individuals to seek justice for wrongs done to them.
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In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.