Lysander Spooner: “Even if a change for the better actually comes, t cmes too late…”

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Even if a change for the better actually comes, t cmes too late, because it comes only after more or less injustice has been irreparably done.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner argues that even if improvements occur, they often come too late to prevent harm caused by previous injustices.

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

Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.

It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.

That the legislation of the king was of no authority over a jury, is further proved by the oath taken by the kings at their coronation.

Lysander Spooner: “Even if a change for the better actually comes, t cmes too late, because it comes only after more or less injustice has…”