Lysander Spooner: “And all contracts whatsoever, for such a purpose, are necessarily…”

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And all contracts whatsoever, for such a purpose, are necessarily absurd and void contracts.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner declares that contracts that attempt to delegate natural rights are invalid.

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They are every day committing errors, which would be crimes, but for their ignorance of the law.

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.

Any restriction upon the exercise of this right is a restriction upon his rightful power of providing for, and accomplishing, his own well-being.

It was simply, that they would neither convict the innocent, nor acquit the guilty.

Lysander Spooner: “And all contracts whatsoever, for such a purpose, are necessarily absurd and void contracts.”