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Or have they, too, been perjured tyrants and traitors?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Or have they, too, been perjured tyrants and traitors?”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner raises the possibility that judges may also be guilty of betrayal if they have knowingly ignored the ninth amendment.
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On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not tell us that they have established infallible supreme courts, to whom they refer all questions as to the legality of their acts, and that they do nothing that is not sanctioned by these courts.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.