These governments (State and national) deny this natural right of buying and selling, etc., by arbitrarily prohibiting, or qualifying, all such, and so many, of these contracts, as they choose to prohibit, or qualify.
This quote highlights Spooner's belief that governments restrict natural rights related to commerce.
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In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.