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Lysander Spooner: Society prohibits the use of private individual coercion, and gives in its place a more safe and more certain remedy.

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Society prohibits the use of private individual coercion, and gives in its place a more safe and more certain remedy.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner explains how society replaces individual coercion with a safer remedy.

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