On the record
On the contrary, they show us what farces and impostures these judicial opinions--or decisions, as they call them--are.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “On the contrary, they show us what farces and impostures these judicial opinions--or decisions, as they call them--are.”
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Spooner critiques the legitimacy of judicial opinions, suggesting they are often mere farces.
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And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
They cannot claim or expect that the whole people shall practise the folly of taking on trust their pretended superior knowledge, and of committing blindly into their hands all their own interests, liberties, and rights, to be disposed of…
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.