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Lysander Spooner: This system of false definitions, false assumptions, and fraud and usurpation generally, runs through all the operations…

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This system of false definitions, false assumptions, and fraud and usurpation generally, runs through all the operations of our governments, State and national.
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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner describes a pervasive system of deception within government operations.

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