Sheldon Richman discusses Lysander Spooner’s argument – contra other abolitionists of his day – that the Constitution forbids slavery, Spooner’s dismissal of euphemistic language in the Constitution in favor of a pro-liberty reading, the current logical trap that prevents dissent from governmental authority, the myth of “consent of the governed,” and why libertarians are against Capitalism (the term, anyway).
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