Lysander Spooner: “We acknowledge that you have a natural right to make your own contracts.”

And yet these reasons, which are really no reasons at all, are the only ones, so far as I know, that have ever been offered for this absurd and brutal doctrine.

Why should they not have such an administration of justice as they desire, and can understand?

All other laws, it is optional with each man to obey, or not, as he may choose.

They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.