Lysander Spooner was a failed lawyer and political philosopher who spent his career railing against the various systems society had set up around him, including education requirements, the Post Office, slavery, and capitalism. He attained his highest fame as an abolitionist after publishing
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, a book that influenced
Frederick Douglass. Building on that train of thought is
No Treason, a series of three essays he published in 1867 arguing that treason charges levied against Southern soldiers in the Civil War are spurious, because the Constitution itself is..." data-title="Книга No Treason">