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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.
"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this
much is certain --- that it has either authorized such a government
as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either
case, it is unfit to exist." Lysander Spooner
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Libraryocm11957687Part first.Boston: A. Williams, 1882. 20 p.; 22
cm.
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like
other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but
enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their
individual doings known, even to each other. They can contrive to
bring about a sufficient understanding to enable them to act in
concert against other persons; but beyond this they have no
confidence, and no friendship, among themselves.
In the midst of this endless variety of opinion, what man, or what
body of men, has the right to say, in regard to any particular
action, or course of action, "we have tried this experiment, and
determined every question involved in it? We have determined it,
not only for ourselves, but for all others? And, as to all those
who are weaker than we, we will coerce them to act in obedience to
our conclusions? We will suffer no further experiment or inquiry by
any one, and, consequently, no further acquisition of knowledge by
anybody?"
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.
What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like
other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but
enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their
individual doings known, even to each other. They can contrive to
bring about a sufficient understanding to enable them to act in
concert against other persons; but beyond this they have no
confidence, and no friendship, among themselves.
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