I see that this is Chapter 19 of a book claiming that the Constitution of the United States is invalid. I think it is fair to label the book and everything in it "Tin Foil"
If the Constitution of The United States is invalid then "Do What Though Will is the whole of the law"
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Actually, the book is an argument by a prominent legal philosopher forwarding the notion that the constitution had been violated by the conduction of the war and the events in his wake.
Spooner's a very interesting and important character in American history. He and William Lloyd Garrison were the two main philosophers of the intellectual abolitionist movement. Look him up if you get a chance.
In a sense, I believe that is what he's complaining about - he's asserting the government has assumed a policy of might makes right free of any restraint, and that they've done so by tossing out the constitution through the waging of the war and everything in its wake.
If I remember correctly Spooner had a legitimate first hand grievance with the government that probably influenced his stance.
I think he owned some sort of a nineteenth century version of a UPS mail delivery service. He created competition with the post office and it made them lose money and lower their stamp prices, so Congress intervened and used statute to put Spooner out of business.
Malarkey, boy. You try to quote a once famous Satanist and can't do it because you can't spell 'thou'. If you aren't even familiar with Spooner's book you shouldn't try to horn in on a discussion of an essay from it. Servant of nine winos under a bridge? Is that what your nick means?
Well it worked for Crowley and Clinton.