No Treason - Lysander Spooner

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 06:21:01PM -0300, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote:

> 	"NO TREASON. No. VI. The Constitution of No Authority. BY LYSANDER SPOONER. BOSTON: 1870."
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> 	https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/spooner/NoTreason/


Looking for the parent link, John Walker writes this:

  https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/reading_list/indices/topic_politics.html

  Royce, Kenneth W. Hologram of Liberty. Ignacio, CO: Javelin Press,
  1997. ISBN 1-888766-03-4.
    The author, who also uses the nom de plume “Boston T. Party”,
    provides a survey of the tawdry machinations which accompanied
    the drafting and adoption of the United States Constitution,
    making the case that the document was deliberately designed to
    permit arbitrary expansion of federal power, with cosmetic
    limitations of power to persuade the states to ratify it. It is
    striking the extent to which not just vocal anti-federalists like
    Patrick Henry, but also Thomas Jefferson, anticipated precisely
    how the federal government would slip its bonds—through judiciary
    power and the creation of debt, both of which were promptly put
    into effect by John Marshall and Alexander Hamilton,
    respectively. Writing on this topic seems to have, as an
    occupational hazard, a tendency to rant. While Royce never
    ascends to the coruscating rhetoric of Lysander Spooner's No
    Treason, there is a great deal of bold type here, as well as some
    rather curious conspiracy theories (which are, in all fairness,
    presented for the reader's consideration, not endorsed by the
    author). Oddly, although chapter 11 discusses the 27th amendment
    (Congressional Pay Limitation)—proposed in 1789 as part of the
    original Bill of Rights, but not ratified until 1992—it is
    missing from the text of the Constitution in appendix C. 



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