And as for the system being adapted to the maintenance of justice among men, it is a mystery that any human mind could ever have been visited with an insanity wild enough to originate the idea.
Spooner expresses disbelief at the idea that the political system can maintain justice.
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When two men meet one upon the highway, or in the wilderness, have they a right to dispose of his life, liberty, or property at their pleasure, simply because they are the more numerous party?
Therefore all their laws, as they call them,--that is, all the laws of their own making,--have no color of authority or obligation.
If the authority be vested in the government, the governmnt is absolute, and the people have no liberties except such as the government sees fit to indulge them with.
There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.