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The relative numbers of the opposing parties have nothing to do with the question of right.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgThe relative numbers of the opposing parties have nothing to do with the question of right.
Spooner states that the number of people involved does not determine the moral question of right and wrong.
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In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.