The legal effect of these constitutional recognitions of the right of individuals to defend their property, liberties, and lives, ' against the government, is to legalize resistance to all injustice and oppression, of every name and nature whatsoever, on the part of the government.
Spooner explains that constitutional recognition of the right to defend against government injustice legitimizes resistance.
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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.