Lysander Spooner Quotes about Constitution

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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

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.

Lysander Spooner

Government, Constitution, Cases

Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing.

Lysander Spooner

Men, Doe, Constitution

Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

Lysander Spooner Quotes about Constitution

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