And this right of property--this right of supreme, absolute, and irresponsible dominion over anything that is naturally a subject of ownership--is subject only to this qualification, viz., that each man must so use his own, as not to injure another.
Spooner states that property rights are limited only by the obligation not to harm others.
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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.
It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.
Juries would refuse to enforce a tax against a man who had never agreed to pay it.
It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.