Lysander Spooner: “And they can keep control of other men's labor only by depriving the…”

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And they can keep control of other men's labor only by depriving the laborers themselves of all other means of subsistence.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that control over laborers is maintained by depriving them of alternative means of subsistence.

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There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

Lysander Spooner: “And they can keep control of other men's labor only by depriving the laborers themselves of all other means of…”