Lysander Spooner: “There is not a single human right, which the government of the United…”

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There is not a single human right, which the government of the United States recognises as inviolable.

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Lysander Spooner

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Spooner asserts that the U.S. government does not recognize any human rights as inviolable.

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

Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?

The people considered their jurisprudence as a part of their inheritance.

A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.

Lysander Spooner: “There is not a single human right, which the government of the United States recognises as inviolable.”