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The same sources of knowledge on the subject are open to the people that are open to the legislators, and the people must be presumed to know it as well as they.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “The same sources of knowledge on the subject are open to the people that are open to the legislators, and the people…”
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Spooner asserts that the public has access to the same knowledge of natural law as legislators.
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They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
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