Lysander Spooner: “They seem never to have heard of the Declaration of Independence, nor of any other declaration of the natural rights of…”

The presumption clearly is that all were eligible.

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

If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.

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.