On the record
If their laws had been received as authoritative, in the manner that legislative enactments are at this day, they would have been making laws continually.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “If their laws had been received as authoritative, in the manner that legislative enactments are at this day, they would…”
Editor's note · Context
Spooner suggests that if kings' laws were truly authoritative, they would have enacted them more frequently.
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When they have once taken our money, they have the decency to get out of our sight as soon as possible; they do not persist in following us, and robbing us, again and again, so long as we produce anything that they can take from us.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
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.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.