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Featured text No Treason by Lysander Spooner. In a three-part essay that has been called "the greatest case for anarchist political philosophy ever written", Spooner argues that the United States Constitution is an invalid contract, and therefore void, because individuals did not explicitly consent to be ruled by it. Notwithstanding all the proclamations we have made to mankind, within the last ninety years, that our government rested on consent, and that that was the only rightful basis on which any government could rest, the late war has practically demonstrated that our government rests upon force—as much so as any government that ever existed. The North has thus virtually said to the world: It was all very well to prate of consent, so long as the objects to be accomplished were to liberate ourselves from our connexion with England, and also to coax a scattered and jealous people into a great national union; but now that those purposes have been accomplished, and the power of the North has become consolidated, it is sufficient for us—as for all governments—simply to say: Our power is our right. (Read on...) or see all featured texts.

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New texts Weird Tales (vol. 24, no. 3) (Various authors, 1934) Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (Thomas Davidson, (ed.), 1908) American Poetry 1922 (Various authors, 1922) Ravished Armenia (Aurora Mardiganian, (tr.) Henry Leyford Gates, 1918) 150 Cong. Rec. S7980 - Federal Marriage Ammendment - Motion to Proceed - Resumed (Richard John Santorum, 2004) Of Gardens (Francis Bacon, 1902) Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (Florence Nightingale, 1860) A partial listing of some new texts (add)

Collaboration The current Community collaboration is collecting texts related to … WikiProject NARA Recent collaborations: Disney, Domesday survey, Niccolò Machiavelli The current Proofread of the Month is A Desk-Book of Errors in English  (1910) by Frank Horace Vizetelly. Recent collaborations:Yule Logs, English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the nineteenth century, Ninety-three, The World's Famous Orations, vol. 6, Picturesque New Guinea, Picturesque Nepal, The Life of Michael Angelo, The fairy tales of science.

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