But if contracts have no natural obligation, they have no obligation at all, that ought to be enforced; and the State is a mere usurper, tyrant, and robber, in passing any law to enforce them.
Spooner argues that if contracts lack natural obligation, then any enforcement by the state is illegitimate.
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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.