On the record
The whole object of the fraud is to secure to the government the authority of making lawsthat never ought to be known.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “The whole object of the fraud is to secure to the government the authority of making lawsthat never ought to be known.”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner argues that the purpose of the fraud in legislation is to give the government undue law-making power.
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A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
In that case the trial is really a trial by the government, and not by the jury.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.