Lysander Spooner: “And it is so manifestly a theory of pure robbery, that scarce a word…”

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And it is so manifestly a theory of pure robbery, that scarce a word can be necessary to make it more evidently so than it now is.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner describes the government's monetary theory as fundamentally unjust and akin to robbery.

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Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

All those who are not forbidden by law may be judges (jurors).

The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.

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