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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Lysander Spooner's discontentment with the Constitution of the
United States led him to publish No Treason, which revises
significant parts of that document to reduce the power of the state
versus individuals. The author was an anti-authoritarian
philosopher and legal theorist who had spent his earlier life
vigorously campaigning against slavery. Following the American
Civil War however, he became horrified at the brutality and carnage
that had been unleashed. Redoubling his criticisms, Spooner asserts
his dismay that the U.S. government was rendered inert by its
Constitution - slavery was only abolished after a long and bloody
war, whereas had it been forbade at the outset, no such conflict
would have arisen. A strong proponent of natural law - the concept
that all humans had rights endowed at the point of their birth -
Spooner had a sense of revulsion at how American politics had
ensued in the early-to-mid 19th century.
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