Lysander Spooner
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American individualist anarchist and legal theorist (1808 to 1887); author of No Treason.
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So far as the Constitution was a contract, it died with its makers and cannot bind their children (opens korrents.com)
“And the Constitution, so far as it was their contract, died with them. They had no natural power or right to make it obligatory upon their children.”
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If later generations are bound by the Constitution, they are slaves of their dead grandfathers (opens korrents.com)
“If they had intended to bind their posterity to live under it, they should have said that their object was, not "to secure to them the blessings of liberty," but to make slaves of them; for if their "posterity" are…”
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Voting does not pledge anyone to support the government (opens korrents.com)
“Legally speaking, therefore, the act of voting utterly fails to pledge any one to support the government. It utterly fails to prove that the government rests upon the voluntary support of anybody.”
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So far as the Constitution was a contract, it died with its makers and cannot bind their children (opens korrents.com)