Lysander Spooner: “They all proceed upon the principle, that governments have all power…”

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They all proceed upon the principle, that governments have all power, and the people no rights.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner critiques the principle that government holds all power while the people have none.

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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

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

Lysander Spooner: “They all proceed upon the principle, that governments have all power, and the people no rights.”