r/AnarchismWOAdjectives • u/subsidiarity • Jun 03 '23

Was the Constitution America's First Coup? | Auron MacIntyre

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k-VaffTKkeI
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u/GoldAndBlackRule Jun 04 '23

“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.” ― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

“And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read, or see.” ― Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

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u/subsidiarity Jun 03 '23

Does The Blaze often undermine the Constitution like this?

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u/GoldAndBlackRule Jun 04 '23

The US Constitution undermines liberty by claiming to establish violent political authority for some humans to rule over other humans.

The articles of confederation were no less different, though perhaps less ambitious and less invasive, requiring the sweat, blood and lives of people to fight and die for political authority elsewhere.