Lysander Spooner: “They would also protect men in forcibly resisting the collection of…”

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They would also protect men in forcibly resisting the collection of taxes to which they had never consented.

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Lysander Spooner

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He asserts that juries would protect individuals from tax collection without consent.

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The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

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Lysander Spooner: “They would also protect men in forcibly resisting the collection of taxes to which they had never consented.”