5. It does not tell us that this right of individual liberty is a _natural, inherent, inalienable right; that therefore no man can part with it, or delegate it to another, if he would_; and that, consequently, all the claims that have ever been made, by governments, priests, or any other powers, that individuals have voluntarily surrendered, or "delegated," their liberty to others, are all impostures and frauds. 6. It does not tell us that all human laws, so called, and all human lawmaking,--all commands, either by one man, or any number of men, calling themselves a government, or by any other name--requiring any individual to do this, or forbidding him to do that--so long as he "lives honestly, hurts no one, and gives to every one his due"--are all false and tyrannical assumptions of a right of authority and dominion over him; are all violations of his natural, inherent, inalienable, rightful, individual liberty; and, as such, are to be resented and resisted to the utmost, by every one who does not choose to be a slave. 7. And, finally, it does not tell us that all _lawmaking_ governments whatsoever--whether called monarchies, aristocracies, republics, democracies, or by any other name--are all alike violations of men's natural and rightful liberty. We can now see why lawmakers are the only enemies, from whom "our liberty" has anything to fear, or whom we have any occasion to watch. They are to be watched, because they claim the right to abolish justice, and establish injustice in its stead; because they claim the right to command us to do things which justice does not require us to do, and to forbid us to do things which justice permits us to do; because they deny our right to be, _individually, and absolutely_, our own masters and owners, so long as we obey the one law of justice towards all other persons; because they claim to be our masters, and that _their_ commands, _as such_, are authoritative and binding upon us as law; and that they may rightfully compel us to obey them. "Our liberty" is in danger only from the lawmakers, because it is only through the agency of lawmakers, that anybody pretends to be able to take away "our liberty." It is only the lawmakers that claim to be above all responsibility for taking away "our liberty." Lawmakers are the only ones who are impudent enough to assert for themselves the right to take away "our liberty." They are the only ones who are impudent enough to tell us that we have voluntarily surrendered "our liberty" into their hands. They are the only ones who have the insolent condescension to tell us that, in consideration of our having surrendered into their hands "our liberty," and all our natural, inherent, inalienable rights as human beings, they are disposed to give us, in return, "good government," "the best form of government ever vouchsafed to man"; to "protect" us, to provide for our "welfare," to promote our "interests," etc., etc.