Lysander Spooner: No Treason

Lysander Spooner was an individualist anarchist, a lawyer, an abolitionist, and an entrepreneur in the 19th Century. He is my favorite anarchist author. What follows is the first section to an essay titled No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, written in 1867. In this essay Spooner argues that the Constitution cannot bind any man who did not willingly consent to it, and defended