They are all mere questions of natural justice, which legislatures have no power to alter, and with which they have no right to interfere, further than to provide for having them settled by the most competent and impartial tribunal that it is practicable to have, and then for having all just decisions enforced.
Spooner asserts that natural justice is beyond the reach of legislative alteration, emphasizing its fundamental nature.
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