Hakkında
Lysander Spooner, Amerikalı politik düşünür, deneme ve kitapçık yazarı, üniteryen, kölelik karşıtı, bireyci anarşist, hukuk kuramcısı, sosyalist Birinci Enternasyonal'in bir üyesi ve girişimcidir. Spooner, emek hareketinin sağlam bir savunucusuydu ve görüş olarak anti-otoriter ve bireyci anarşist idi.
Ünvan:
Yazar, Düşünür
Doğum:
Athol, Massachusetts, ABD, 19 Ocak 1808
Ölüm:
Boston, Massachusetts, ABD, 14 Mayıs 1887
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"Those persons, if any, who did give their consent formally, are all dead now. Most of them have been dead forty, fifty, sixty, or seventy years. 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. It is not only plainly impossible, in the nature of things, that they could bind their posterity, but they did not even attempt to bind them."
"As taxation is made compulsory on all, whether they vote or not, a large proportion of those who vote, no doubt do so to prevent their own money being used against themselves; when, in fact, they would have gladly abstained from voting, if they could thereby have saved themselves from taxation alone, to say nothing of being saved from all the other usurpations and tyrannies of the government. To take a man's property without his consent, and then to infer his consent because he attempts, by voting, to prevent that property from being used to his injury, is a very insufficient proof of his consent to support the Constitution. It is, in fact, no proof at all. And as we can have no legal knowledge as to who the particular individuals are, if there are any, who are willing to be taxed for the sake of voting, or who would prefer freedom from taxation to the privilege of voting, we can have no legal knowledge that any particular individual consents to be taxed for the sake of voting; or, consequently, consents to support the Constitution."
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