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That is to say, he has, by nature, the right to judge of, and enforce his own rights, and judge of, and redress his own wrongs.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “That is to say, he has, by nature, the right to judge of, and enforce his own rights, and judge of, and redress his own…”
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Spooner explains that individuals have the right to judge and enforce their own rights and wrongs.
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It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
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.
And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.