A Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

?No man can delegate, or give to another, any right of arbitrary dominion over a third person; for that would imply a right in the first person, not only to make the third person his slave, but also a right to dispose of him as a slave to still other persons. Any contract to do this is necessarily a criminal one, and therefore invalid. To call such a contract a ?Constitution? does not at all lessen its criminality, or add to its validity.? Classic by Lysander Spooner.