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Secret ballots make a secret government of robbers, worse than open despotism

Drawn from what Lysander Spooner said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Lysander Spooner actually said

  1. Lysander Spooner American individualist anarchist and legal theorist (1808 to 1887)
    The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. Open despotism is better than this.

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