Lysander Spooner: “They are just as false and absurd as it would be to say that they are protecting the public health, by arbitrarily…”

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

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