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Lysander Spooner: Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or…

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Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that laws created by humans lack true authority and obligation.

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