"No Treason," Annotated: Part I
Spooner begins his most important work by attacking the idea that we have consented to be governed by the United States government.
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Spooner begins his most important work by attacking the idea that we have consented to be governed by the United States government.
Having dispensed with the idea of consent to government, Spooner pivots to ask--Whose Constitution is it, anyway?
Spooner disabuses us of the notion that paying taxes or voting is equivalent to offering one's consent to be governed.
Spooner exposes the great Government Conspiracy and seeks to assign moral responsibility for the actions of a criminal gang shielded by mythological legitimacy.
In his conclusion, Spooner targets the shadow-governing class of elites who use civic religion to manipulate a public unwilling to govern themselves.