Besides, it would be practically impossible to maintain government on such principles; for no government could enforce its civil judgments, unless it could support them by criminal ones, in case of resistance.
Spooner emphasizes the necessity of criminal enforcement to uphold civil judgments in government.
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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
But there is no reason why a judge should have the power of punishing, for contempt, any more than for any other offence.
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.