# Lysander Spooner: No Treason, Part 2

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/classics-of-liberty/lysander-spooner-no-treason-part-2>

**By** Lysander Spooner, Caleb O. Brown

**Published:** November 7, 2016

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In this episode, Caleb O. Brown reads part two of Lysander Spooner's _No Treason_.

In this episode, Caleb O. Brown reads part two of Lysander Spooner's _No Treason, VI_.

In our first number on Lysander Spooner’s _No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority_, our author systematically rejects the notion that individuals consent to government by paying taxes or voting. There, the case is decidedly abstract and philosophical, but for our second number we turn to the more explicitly _legal _and _constitutional_. Spooner begins by demonstrating that the Constitution purports to be a contract between _either_ sovereign individuals _or _sovereign state governments.

This episode was written by Anthony Comegna, narrated by Caleb Brown, and produced by Mark McDaniel