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No Treason The Constitution of No Authority (Paperback)
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No Treason The Constitution of No Authority (Paperback)
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2010 Reprint of the original 1870 edition. Paperback 55pp. Lysander
Spooner (January 19, 1808 - May 14, 1887) was an American
anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist,
supporter of the labor movement, and legal theorist of the
nineteenth century. He is also known for competing with the U.S.
Post Office with his American Letter Mail Company, which was forced
out of business by the United States government. He has been
identified by some contemporary writers as an anarcho-capitalist,
while other writers and activists are convinced by his advocacy of
self-employment over working for an employer for wages, that he was
an anti-capitalist or a socialist, notwithstanding his support for
private ownership of the means of production and a free-market
economy. No Treason has it origins in The Union government's
actions during the Civil War. In response, Spooner published one of
his most famous political tracts, No Treason. In this lengthy
essay, Spooner argued that the Constitution was a contract of
government which had been irreparably violated during the war and
was thus void. Furthermore, since the government now existing under
the Constitution pursued coercive policies that were contrary to
the Natural Law and to the consent of the governed, it had been
demonstrated that document was unable to adequately stop many
abuses against liberty or to prevent tyranny from taking hold.
Spooner bolstered his argument by noting that the Federal
government, as established by a legal contract, could not legally
bind all persons living in the nation since none had ever signed
their names or given their consent to it - that consent had always
been assumed, which fails the most basic burdens of proof for a
valid contract in the courtroom. Spooner widely circulated the No
Treason pamphlets, which also contained a legal defense against the
crime of treason itself intended for former Confederate soldiers
(hence the name of the pamphlet, arguing that "no treason" had been
committed in the war by the south). These excerpts were published
in DeBow's Review and some other well known southern periodicals of
the time.
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