Deuxième Lettre De Lysander Spooner à Thomas F. Bayard

[José]

Roderick T. Long nous annonce que l'on a retrouvé une deuxième lettre que Spooner envoya au juriste et sénateur Thomas Bayard :

• A Letter to Thomas F. Bayard
  
• A Second Letter to Thomas F. Bayard
  

Dans les deux Spooner rejette la légitimité de la constitution et des politiciens, avec de durs accents contre Bayard.

Sir, that your own 'simplicity' is a little 'sublime', when you tell us that this paper, the constitution, which nobody ever signed, which few people ever read, which the great body of the people never saw, and about whose meaning no two persons ever agreed, is 'the Supreme Law of the Land?'.

[Jesrad]

Sir, this declaration of yours, that the constitution (so-called) is “the Supreme Law of this Land,” is utterly, flagrantly, shamefully false. Justice alone is the Supreme Law of this land, and of all other lands. And if you do not know it, your ignorance is so dense as to be pitiable. And if the audience that applauded your speech do not know that justice itself is the only supreme law of this, or any other, land, their ignorance is also so dense as to be pitiable.

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And let me repeat, what I have heretofore said to you, that justice is a science to be learned, like any other science, and not any thing that can be made, unmade, or altered, by constitutions, or Congresses, or any other human power. This is a fact, of which you and other legislators, as you call yourselves, are strangely oblivious.

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Justice, I repeat, is the supreme law of this land, and of all other lands. And being everywhere and always the supreme law, it is necessarily everywhere and always the only law. And justice is a science to be learned; and not any thing that majorities, or minorities, or any other human power, can make, unmake, or alter. It is also so easily learned that mankind have no valid excuse for attempting to set up any other in its stead.

C'est superbe !

[José]

C'est superbe !

Pour aller plus à fond : Natural Law; or The Science of Justice.