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From Section XXIII of “A Letter to Grover Cleveland” (1886)
Posted on: June 7, 2024 at 09:42:05 CT
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Lysander Spooner
https://mises.org/mises-wire/problem-federal-courts-and-sovereignty
… The only real “sovereignty,” or right of “sovereignty,” in this or any other country, is that right of sovereignty which each and every human being has over his or her own person and property, so long as he or she obeys the one law of jus tice towards the person and property of every other human being. This is the only natural right of sovereignty, that was ever known among men. All other so called rights of sovereignty are simply the usurpations of impostors, conspirators, robbers, tyrants, and murderers.
It is not strange that we are in such high favor with the tyrants of Europe, when our Supreme Court tells them that our government, although a little different in form, stands on the same essential basis as theirs of a hundred years ago; that it is as absolute and irresponsible as theirs were then; that it will spend more money, and shed more blood, to maintain its power, than they have ever been able to do; that the people have no more rights here than there; and that the government is doing all it can to keep the producing classes as poor here as they are there.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/problem-federal-courts-and-sovereignty
… The only real “sovereignty,” or right of “sovereignty,” in this or any other country, is that right of sovereignty which each and every human being has over his or her own person and property, so long as he or she obeys the one law of jus tice towards the person and property of every other human being. This is the only natural right of sovereignty, that was ever known among men. All other so called rights of sovereignty are simply the usurpations of impostors, conspirators, robbers, tyrants, and murderers.
It is not strange that we are in such high favor with the tyrants of Europe, when our Supreme Court tells them that our government, although a little different in form, stands on the same essential basis as theirs of a hundred years ago; that it is as absolute and irresponsible as theirs were then; that it will spend more money, and shed more blood, to maintain its power, than they have ever been able to do; that the people have no more rights here than there; and that the government is doing all it can to keep the producing classes as poor here as they are there.
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From Section XXIII of “A Letter to Grover Cleveland” (1886) - pickle MU - 6/7 09:42:05