Wordsworth Donisthorpe
historical figure · 1 work · 4 mentions · 16 anchored passages · author page · cited 6 times in 1 work
I · Donisthorpe · Mr. Donisthorpe · the author · President of the Legitimation League · the capitalisationist · the narrator
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Law in a Free State
The author and narrator of the essay, a proponent of individualism who also proposed a scheme of voluntary taxation.
I feel a special responsibility for the existence of the scheme of voluntary taxation.
It has become part of the unwritten law of the country, though it is a law which is frequently broken, that the unsupported testimony of the police should not be accepted as conclusive evidence against a citizen unless there is a strong primâ facie probability of his having committed the offence with which he is charged.
While we have a post-office, by all means let the department conduct itself on the most approved business principles, and look after the interests of its customers.