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They have even more interest in it; for, being the weaker party, they must rely on it for their security, having no other security on which they can rely.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “They have even more interest in it; for, being the weaker party, they must rely on it for their security, having no…”
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Spooner asserts that the minority has even greater interest in just laws for their security, reflecting on power dynamics.
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They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.