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Lysander Spooner: It only professes to substitute something arbitrary in the place of natural law.

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It only professes to substitute something arbitrary in the place of natural law.
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Lysander Spooner

Editor's note · Context

This quote emphasizes that legislation replaces natural law with arbitrary rules rather than clarifying it.

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