Lysander Spooner: “And none but a congress of usurpers, robbers, and swindlers would ever…”

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And none but a congress of usurpers, robbers, and swindlers would ever think of using it for that purpose.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner describes Congress as a body of usurpers if it uses its powers to establish monopolies.

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In this manner all unjust laws are established, and made operative against the rights of the people.

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

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.

Lysander Spooner: “And none but a congress of usurpers, robbers, and swindlers would ever think of using it for that purpose.”