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No Treason

by Lysander Spooner

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1867
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Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Lysander Spooner's pamphlet mounts a radical attack on the authority of the United States Constitution. Spooner argues that a document signed generations ago by a handful of men can bind no living person, since none of us ever agreed to it, and that an obligation nobody consented to is no obligation at all. From there he dismantles the claim that voting or paying taxes counts as genuine consent, and questions whether any government can rightfully speak for the governed. Sharp, relentless and deeply unsettling to defenders of state power, it became a foundational text for later individualist anarchist and libertarian thought.

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Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was an American lawyer, abolitionist and individualist anarchist. He challenged the government's postal monopoly with his own mail company, argued that slavery was unconstitutional, and wrote fierce essays defending natural rights and questioning the legitimacy of state authority.

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First published
1867
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
79
Language
English
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