That is to say, they have it in their power, not only to elevate immensely the condition of the laboring classes in this country, but also to set an example that will be very rapidly followed in all other countries; and the result will be the elevation of all oppressed laborers throughout the world.
Spooner believes that abolishing the money monopoly could significantly improve laborers' conditions worldwide.
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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?
What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?
It was a principle of the Common Law, as it is of the law of nature, and of common sense, that no man can be taxed without his personal consent.