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Before the civil war, there were some grounds for saying that, at least in theory, our government was a free one — that it rested on consent, writes Lysander Spooner (1808–1887). This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Brad
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Since each person votes for different reasons, we can’t morally say that the outcome of an election binds people to any specific law or policy. Original article (excerpted from No Treason No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority ): “On Voting” . Narrated by Matt
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For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. Narrated by Michael Stack.
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Murray Rothbard considered No Treason to be “the greatest case for anarchist political philosophy every written.” Narrated by Matt Pritchard.
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Introduction by Murray N. Rothbard We are all indebted to Carl Watner for uncovering an unknown work by the great Lysander Spooner, one that managed to escape the editor of Spooner’s Collected Works . Both the title and the substance of “Vices are not Crimes” highlight the unique role that morality and moral principle had for Spooner among the
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[This article is excerpted from Let’s Abolish Government .] The free administration of justice was a principle of the common law, and it must necessarily be a part of every system of government which is not designed to be an engine in the hands of the rich for the oppression of the poor. In saying that the free administration of justice was a
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[ No Treason , no. 1, was first printed in 1867, just after the American Civil War. An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Brad O’Connell, is available for download .] The question of treason is distinct from that of slavery, and it is the same that it would have been if free states, instead of slave states, had seceded. On the part of