Lysander Spooner: “And it is the only rule, to which congress have any constitutional…”

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And it is the only rule, to which congress have any constitutional power to make commerce conform.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that Congress's power over commerce is limited to natural rights.

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Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

Lysander Spooner: “And it is the only rule, to which congress have any constitutional power to make commerce conform.”