Lysander Spooner: “This is the principal, if not the sole, motive for the establishment…”

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This is the principal, if not the sole, motive for the establishment of all legitimate government.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner emphasizes the foundational motive behind legitimate government as serving the interests of the people.

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They were even allowed to grant pardon to criminals, and to correct by their clemency the rigors of justice.

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.

And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.

It would also be making them consent to what they regard as the destruction of their own rights.

Lysander Spooner: “This is the principal, if not the sole, motive for the establishment of all legitimate government.”