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A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for ther... (more Lysander Spooner quotes)
| The Lysander Spooner Reader by Lysander Spooner and George H. Smith | |
| Review of Lysander Spooner's essay on the unconstitutionality of slavery: reprinted from the "Anti-slavery standard," with additions by Wendell Phillips | |
| Lysander Spooner : No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F Bayard by James J. Martin |
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