If the authority of his laws had been paramount in the judicial tribunals, it would have been paramount with the people, of course; because they would have had no alternative but submission.
Spooner argues that if the king's laws were truly authoritative, the people would have no choice but to submit to them.
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It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.