Lysander Spooner: “It would give congress power arbitrarily to control, obstruct, impede, derange, prohibit, and destroy commerce.”

And he can rightfully be held to no greater knowledge of the law than this.

It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.