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Lysander Spooner: “The criminal law requires neither impossibilities nor extraordinaries of any one.”

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The criminal law requires neither impossibilities nor extraordinaries of any one.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner states that criminal law does not demand the impossible from individuals.

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