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Many of these bills of rights also assert the natural right of all men to protect their property that is, to protect it against the government.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Many of these bills of rights also assert the natural right of all men to protect their property that is, to protect it…”
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Spooner highlights the natural right of individuals to protect their property from government infringement.
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They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.