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Constitution Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this…
- 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…
- No man can delegate,... any right of arbitrary dominion over a 3rd person; for that would imply a right in the 1st person, not only…
- But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we…
- It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does not speak of…
- The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole…
- There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon…
- And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all…
- Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of…
- It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a…
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- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams