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Lysander Spooner: Are not all these propositions so self-evident, or so easily demonstrated, that they cannot, with any reason, be…

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Are not all these propositions so self-evident, or so easily demonstrated, that they cannot, with any reason, be disputed?
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner challenges the reader to recognize the self-evidence of his propositions regarding economic rights.

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