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The objections made to natural law, on the ground of obscurity, are wholly unfounded.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgThe objections made to natural law, on the ground of obscurity, are wholly unfounded.
He dismisses objections to natural law based on claims of obscurity as unfounded.
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Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.