Lysander Spooner: “Consequently it is the only institution, that gives them any effective voice in the government, or any guaranty against…”

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

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

When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.