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V. - Lysander Spooner, Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States [1860]Edition used:Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860).
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V.We therefore hold it demonstrable, at least, if not self-evident, that the constitution of the United States, “the supreme law of the land,” must, simply by virtue of its supremacy, fix the status of every individual in the United States, independently of the State governments; that it must operate directly upon each and every individual, native or naturalized, declaring him entitled, as a citizen of the United States, to the protection and benefits of the national government, or declaring him to be property, subject only to the will of his owner, and therefore entitled to no personal protection at all, either from the general or State governments. |
