Lysander Spooner: “They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or…”

But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.

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.

The answer is, that they are as reliable for that purpose as are the majority; they are as much presumed to have associated, and are as likely to have associated, for that object, as are the majority; and they have as much interest in such…