It has only shown to what desperate straits a government, founded on usurpation and fraud, and devoted to robbery and oppression, may be brought, by the quarrels that are liable to arise between the different factions--that is, the different bands of robbers--of which it is composed.
Spooner describes the desperate state of a government built on usurpation and fraud.
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