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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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