Lysander Spooner: “And congress has no more right to invalidate this mortgage, by a…”

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And congress has no more right to invalidate this mortgage, by a single iota, than it has to invalidate a warranty deed of land.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that Congress cannot invalidate a mortgage any more than it can invalidate a property deed.

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They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

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

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

Lysander Spooner: “And congress has no more right to invalidate this mortgage, by a single iota, than it has to invalidate a warranty deed…”