And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to the nature of their acts.
Spooner asserts that actions taken by a government without individual rights are equivalent to criminal acts.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.