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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.orgMany 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.
Spooner highlights the natural right of individuals to protect their property from government infringement.
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It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.
That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.
Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.