It is, at best, only a robbery of one home laborer--the producer of cotton, tobacco, grain, beef, pork, butter, or cheese--for the benefit of another home laborer--the producer of iron or woolen goods.
Spooner describes the unfairness of benefiting one laborer at the expense of another through taxation.
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A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.
In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.