How can these agents be restrained from seeking their own interests, and the interests of those who elected them, at the expense of the rights of the remainder of the people, by the passage and enforcement of laws that shall be partial, unequal, and unjust in their operation?
Spooner questions how to prevent elected officials from prioritizing their own interests over the rights of all citizens.
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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.
In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.
And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.