And all who are associated with you in the government--whether they be called senators, representatives, judges, executive officers, or what not--all hold their places, directly or indirectly, only by the same worthless title.
Spooner states that all government officials hold their positions by the same unjustifiable title.
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And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.