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Legislators have the sense to see that they can add nothing to the authority of natural law, and that it will stand on its own authority, unless they overturn it.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Legislators have the sense to see that they can add nothing to the authority of natural law, and that it will stand on…”
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Spooner concludes that natural law stands on its own authority, independent of legislative efforts.
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