Lysander Spooner: “If they command or license any man to do injustice, they are criminal on their face.”

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

And whenever any number of men, calling themselves a government, do anything to another man, or to his property, which they had no right to do as individuals they thereby declare themselves trespassers, robbers, or murderers, according to…

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

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.