Lysander Spooner Articles See More Lysander Spooner Mar 1st, 1870 “No Treason,” Annotated: Part V In his conclusion, Spooner targets the shadow‐governing class of elites who use civic religion to manipulate a public unwilling to govern themselves. Lysander Spooner Mar 1st, 1870 “No Treason,” Annotated: Part IV Spooner exposes the great Government Conspiracy and seeks to assign moral responsibility for the actions of a criminal gang shielded by mythological legitimacy. Lysander Spooner Mar 1st, 1870 “No Treason,” Annotated: Part III Spooner disabuses us of the notion that paying taxes or voting is equivalent to offering one’s consent to be governed. Lysander Spooner Mar 1st, 1867 “No Treason,” Annotated: Part II Having dispensed with the idea of consent to government, Spooner pivots to ask–Whose Constitution is it, anyway? Lysander Spooner Mar 1st, 1867 “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. Lysander Spooner and William Leggett Jul 29th, 1837 Leggett & Spooner: Abolishing Slavery without the State Some abolitionists saw the state as complicit in slavery and tried to fight slavery without its help. Lysander Spooner Jan 1st, 1852 An Essay on the Trial by Jury: Juries vs. Representative Democracy When it comes to checking tyranny, the jury box beats the ballot box. Lysander Spooner Jan 1st, 1867 The Constitution of No Authority Spooner argues in this radical essay that the Constitution, which he frames as a legal contract, is not binding. Podcasts See More Lysander Spooner: No Treason, Part 2 Lysander Spooner and Caleb O. Brown Lysander Spooner: No Treason, Part 1 Lysander Spooner and Caleb O. Brown Lysander Spooner: To the Non‐Slaveholders of the South Lysander Spooner and Caleb O. Brown