On the record
All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgAll legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers.
He defines legitimate government as a voluntary agreement for mutual protection among individuals.
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It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.