But in the case of the political corporation, controversies among the parties to it, as to the rights of individual members, must of necessity be settled by members of the corporation itself, because there are no persons out of the corporation to whom the question can be referred.
Spooner points out that political disputes must be resolved within the corporation due to the lack of external arbiters.
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It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.