On the record
All the other modes, by which one man has ever attempted to acquire the property of another, have been thefts, robberies, and frauds.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner condemns other methods of acquiring property as theft or fraud.
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Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
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 simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.