It does not tell us that this right of individual liberty rests upon an immutable, natural principle, which no human power can make, unmake, or alter; nor that all human authority, that claims to set it aside, or modify it, is nothing but falsehood, absurdity, usurpation, tyranny, and crime.
Spooner argues that individual liberty is based on immutable natural principles.
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Yet the codes of the most celebrated kings are very small, and were little more than compilations of immemorial customs.
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