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"A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between indiv..." — Lysander Spooner
A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation.
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