Project Gutenberg 2011-05-18 Public domain in the USA. 110 Spooner, Lysander 1808 1887 No Treason, Vol. VI.: The Constitution of No Authority Produced by Susan Goble, Curtis Weyant, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "No Treason, Vol. VI.: The Constitution of No Authority" by Lysander Spooner is a philosophical essay written in the late 19th century. The work critically examines the authority of the United States Constitution, arguing that it lacks legitimacy as a binding contract on future generations. Spooner contends that the Constitution was not agreed upon by the people it ostensibly governs, and therefore cannot justly impose obligations on individuals who were neither consulted nor have consented to its terms. At the start of this treatise, Spooner makes a compelling case against the notion that the Constitution carries any inherent authority. He argues that the founding document was essentially a pact among the people living at the time of its creation, incapable of binding those who came after. The opening chapters delve into the implications of consent, voting, and taxation, asserting that these mechanisms do not constitute genuine agreement or support for the government's actions as delineated in the Constitution. Spooner positions the Constitution as a relic, anchoring his argument in legal principles and calling out the fallacy of a government system that operates under the guise of consent while being maintained through coercion and secrecy. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Constitutional law -- United States KF Text Browsing: Law & Criminology Browsing: Politics 147452 147461 2024-09-15T10:11:38.075516 2023-09-16T04:06:21.748970 text/html text/html 145121 2011-05-18T09:19:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 46739 2011-05-18T09:19:20 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 107682 2024-09-15T10:11:42.286472 application/epub+zip 108027 2024-09-15T10:11:39.487498 application/epub+zip 108028 2024-09-15T10:11:38.621494 application/epub+zip 283838 2024-09-15T10:11:44.253483 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 271662 2024-09-15T10:11:41.537470 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 215154 2022-09-16T13:43:54.975289 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 135105 134981 2024-09-15T10:11:37.789589 2023-09-16T04:06:21.456008 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 134842 2011-05-18T09:19:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 44523 2011-05-18T09:19:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18023 2024-09-15T10:11:44.378452 application/rdf+xml 21091 2024-09-15T10:11:38.960485 image/jpeg 4557 2024-09-15T10:11:38.789584 image/jpeg 109273 2024-09-15T10:11:38.088504 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia