A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.
Interpretation
This quote asserts that married women possess the same rights as married men regarding property and contracts.
Lysander Spooner's quote emphasizes the fundamental equality of women in legal and economic matters, arguing that a married woman should have the same autonomy and rights to manage property and enter into contracts as any man. This statement challenges the societal norms of his time that often restricted women's rights, advocating for recognition of women's capabilities and rights as individuals, regardless of marital status.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a women's rights seminar to highlight the importance of property rights.
The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that-however bloody-can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.
For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.
And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived.
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.
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 them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.
I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.
A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.
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