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Have they all been mere blockheads, who never read this amendment, or knew nothing of its meaning?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Have they all been mere blockheads, who never read this amendment, or knew nothing of its meaning?”
Editor's note · Context
He questions whether judges have been ignorant of the ninth amendment or complicit in its neglect.
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They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
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When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.
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