ABOUT THE BOOK

The Book is a composition of three essays, all written in 1867. No Treason No. I and II serve as an introduction to the author idea of the non - validity of the United States Constitution. The third one (essay) , namely. The Constitution of No Authority, the author, a lawyer, starts no authority by examining its potential validity as a binding contract, pointing out that the US Constitution could have no inherent, lasting authority, except as a contract between men, and that it only claims to be one between the people existing when it was written. He then describe a scenario in which people who resist subjugation might be killed even by hundreds of thousands.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lysander Spooner (1808-1857) was an American individualist anarchist, political, philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, legal theorist and entrepreneur of the nineteenth century. Spooner advocated what he called Natural Law – or the “Science of Justice” wherein acts of initiatory coercion against individuals and their property were considered criminal because they were immoral while the so called criminal acts that violated only man-made (arbitrary) legislation were not necessary criminal. Spooner's most famous writing includes seminal abolitionist book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery and No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority.