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Discussion can do nothing to prevent the enactment, or procure the repeal, of unjust laws, unless it be understood that, the discussion is to be followed by resistance.
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Lysander Spooner
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Spooner argues that mere discussion is insufficient to effect change unless it leads to active resistance against unjust laws.
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Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
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Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
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