Lysander Spooner: “And as soon as they are mentally competent to make reasonable…”

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And as soon as they are mentally competent to make reasonable contracts, they have the same natural right to make them, that they ever can have.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner asserts that once individuals are mentally competent, they have the right to contract.

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And the right is practically established only when and because the government, no longer exists to call it in question.

There is no more absurdity in giving a jury a veto upon the laws, than there is in giving a veto to each of these other tribunals.

It would be a solecism and absurdity in government to allow such consequences as these.

What else than ignorance of the law is it that excuses persons under the years of discretion, and men of imbecile minds?

Lysander Spooner: “And as soon as they are mentally competent to make reasonable contracts, they have the same natural right to make them…”