Ep. 323 Does the Constitution Bind Anyone?
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Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Work Discussed
No Treason, by Lysander Spooner
Video Mentioned
When Did I Sign This ‘Social Contract’? (Tom Woods)
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Ep. 322: Lysander Spooner: Anti-Slavery, Pro-Secession
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.2 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:12.2 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:15.0 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.7 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.4 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.2 | Beware, citizen, you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 323. |
| 0:38.3 | We're talking about Lysander Spooner again today. I didn't realize I'd have so much to say about this guy. |
| 0:44.3 | And I wanted to have a full episode to talk about his views on consent and the Constitution. |
| 0:50.3 | Because I think that's the aspect of his thought that gets the most libertarian |
| 0:54.6 | attention. And I didn't want that to be just an afterthought in an episode having to do with |
| 0:59.6 | his work against slavery. At the end of the episode today, I'm going to tell you how to get my |
| 1:05.0 | free e-book that I've just released. I've got a brand new e-book, Cost Nothing, derived from material from this here show, |
| 1:13.6 | and it's called 14 hard questions for libertarians answered. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, baby, you can get that for free, but just hang on, I'll tell you how to do that at the end. |
| 1:26.6 | So we're talking about |
| 1:27.5 | Lysander Spooner you remember this guy 19th century figure he tried to compete |
| 1:33.2 | with the post office and they shut him down and he supports jury nullification |
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