They do not tell us that they have established infallible supreme courts, to whom they refer all questions as to the legality of their acts, and that they do nothing that is not sanctioned by these courts.
Spooner points out the hypocrisy of relying on courts to validate government actions.
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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.
And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.
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.
The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…