In fact, nearly all the uncertainty of the laws under which we live, which are a mixture of natural and written laws, arises from the difficulty of construing, or, rather, from the facility of misconstruing, the written law; while natural law has nearly or quite the same certainty as mathematics.
Spooner discusses how the uncertainty in laws arises from misinterpretation of written law, unlike natural law.
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