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The Annotated No Treason

Name: The Annotated No Treason
Author: Lysander Spooner
ISBN: 9780983319504

by Lysander Spooner

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Overview

In his own time, Lysander Spooner was one of the most influential American thinkers on the issues of abolition, legal theory, natural rights and government. Found within these pages is one of the most incisive legal analyses concerning the idea of the "consent of the governed" ever found in the history of thought. His perspectives on the Civil War and the proper meaning of government by consent found here in No Treason are as relevant to our time as they were to his own. This Forgotten Voices of Liberty edition contains annotations and a faithful representation of the original printed text.

About the Author, Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner was a well-respected legal theorist, abolitionist, and advocate of individual liberty. His other main work, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, was cited in a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision and was influential on other abolitionists in his day, including Frederick Douglass.