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confessions that the governments exist for the punishment and prevention of acts that are, in their nature, simple impossibilities." Natural Law, Lysander Spooner, 1882
I was helped on this forum when a link was offered by someone on this forum, and the link was a collection of works by Spooner.
This may appear to be a sidetrack from my original goal, and from my attempt to zero in on mesne profits. The original goal is to offer clear evidence that proves beyond reasonable doubt that government is - exclusively is - a voluntary association for mutual defense, as proven throughout history where, when, and how people remain free and at liberty. The problem with this goal is the simple fact that criminals have managed to counterfeit government in almost every place and almost every time to some degree or another along the same timeline as free people maintain liberty.
Actual law, which is always a voluntary association, does not require documentation. Actual law exists whenever, and wherever, defense against harm is facilitated by any individual, or any group of individuals who cooperate - by agreement - to facilitate the same shared goal.
Counterfeit government, on the other hand, depends upon a facade such as a sign from an all powerful entity, a tablet of commandments, a book of orders from the all powerful entity, orders that must be obeyed without question, whereby the counterfeiters construct a facade that is put in place of the individual counterfeiters who pull the strings from behind the facade. This is a simple principle known as deception, a framework from which to construct a more elaborate hoax. Simple fabricator, simple target to be fooled, simple employment of the fabrication upon the target, the simple fact that the target is deceived, and while the target is deceived, the simple fact that the target is in some way consumed factually, by one calorie at a time over a long period of time, or many calories all at once.
A thief can employ the basic principle when yelling and pointing in a direction away from an intended crime scene, the thief yells “THIEF!” while pointing the finger, and as soon as people are captured into the hoax, looking in the direction pointed out by the thief, the thief swipes the prize, doing so undetected.
A much more elaborate hoax is organized religion, and I found a prime example in a new book that cost me a pretty penny or two. That example will now be offered to those who may want to dive into this natural law, voluntary association, free market government, conceptualization offered in this thread.
Before offering the next quote from my newly purchased book, I will attempt to reset the stage.
The history of voluntary association did not start with the Saxons, but from those Saxons are proofs offered in Spooner’s work, showing a framework that worked, and within that voluntary association framework was something called trial by jury. Then the English adopted that voluntary association framework as documented in a work known as the Magna Carta. Clearly the people had the framework working in the form of independent trial juries consenting to, or not consenting to, any claim of authority claimed by anyone, anywhere, anytime. In other words the people, represented in their juries, were the judges of law, the judges of fact, the judges of any need for force of government unleashed upon any wrongdoer deemed a wrongdoer by the people themselves, not by the government as such.
That was called the law, the law of the land, in Latin it was legem terrae, and it was known in English as the common law, the same terminology imported to America. The people volunteer to check any government power, to consent to any government suggestion offered by anyone in any position in government, and so long as the people volunteer to do so, so long will there be voluntary government power to resist corruption in government.
One effective method of counterfeiting government in England was a fabricated authority known as Equity. Clearly in the literature there is a demarcation between either a court of law, where private prosecutors prosecute alleged wrongdoers before the country in a jury trial known as a trial by the country, or a Court of Equity where a government agent has already determined guilt and those found to be guilty by the government are processed for a fee. Those deemed guilty by the government are made to pay a fee to the government in an Equity Court. An Equity Court is a Summary JustUS Court.
That battle between private prosecutors prosecuting alleged wrongdoers before the country in a court of law, and “jurisdiction” assumed instead by a Court of Equity (Summary Justice) was imported to America, as documented very well in Shays’s Rebellion, 1786 to 1787. In Shays’s Rebellion (so-called by the victors whose victory was “possession” by conquest) the battle between Law and Equity was clearly a battle won by Equity over Law, as was the case in England, which led to all that Empire Building, which included War with France, The Slave Trade, and so-called Opium Wars.