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Such a monopoly of food would have been no clearer violation of men's natural rights, than is the present monopoly of money.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner argues that monopolies, whether in food or money, violate natural rights.
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Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
In nearly or quite all the States of the United States the juries are illegal, for one or the other of the same reasons that make the juries in England illegal.
It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.