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Support for the Constitution mostly depends on whether it makes one master or slave, which is no consent
Drawn from what Lysander Spooner said
What Lysander Spooner actually said
- Lysander Spooner American individualist anarchist and legal theorist (1808 to 1887)
In short, men's voluntary support of the Constitution is doubtless, in most cases, wholly contingent upon the question whether, by means of the Constitution, they can make themselves masters, or are to be made slaves. Such contingent consent as that is, in law and reason, no consent at all.
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↗No Treason, No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority (1870)gutenberg.org
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