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Of course we can have no courts of justice, under such systems of lawmaking, and supreme court decisions, as now prevail.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “Of course we can have no courts of justice, under such systems of lawmaking, and supreme court decisions, as now…”
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He critiques the current legal systems, claiming they prevent the establishment of true courts of justice.
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They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not tell us that we are the freest and happiest people on earth, inasmuch as each of our male adults is allowed one voice in ten millions in the choice of the men, who are to rob, enslave, and murder us.
They do not tell us that all liberty and order would be destroyed, that society itself would go to pieces, and man go back to barbarism, if it were not for the care, and supervision, and protection, they lavish upon us.