For example, you have no such evidence of your right to take any man's property for the support of your government, as would be required of you, if you were to claim pay for a single day's honest labor.
Spooner highlights the lack of evidence justifying the government's right to tax individuals.
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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.
All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.
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