Lysander Spooner: “You hold your place only by a title, which, on no just principle of law or reason, is worth a straw.”

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

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.

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.