The pauper laborers (if there are any such) of other countries have just as good a right to live by their labor, and have an equal chance in our own markets, and in all the markets of the world, as have the pauper laborers, or any other laborers, of our own country.
Spooner argues for the equal rights of laborers from all countries in the marketplace.
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From the sale of that justice which every citizen has a right to demand, it was an easy transition to withhold or deny it.
And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.