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Let's Abolish Government

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Let’s Abolish Government

Let’s Abolish Government gives this wiki a long-form Spooner source rather than a short quotation set or a single famous excerpt. It matters because it expands the anti-state corpus backward into nineteenth-century constitutional and legal dissent.

What the Collection Contains

The Mises description identifies this volume as a Rothbard-selected Spooner collection built around texts such as Trial by Jury, Letter to Grover Cleveland, and No Treason. That makes it a composite source on jury nullification, constitutional non-consent, slavery, reconstruction, and the radical critique of compulsory political authority.

Why It Matters in This Wiki

The current topic wiki already criticizes the state as coercive and nonconsensual. Spooner sharpens that critique by attacking the idea that constitutions manufacture obligation for persons who never truly consented. That is why the book supports both State Power and Intervention and Market Anarchism and Private Law.

Scope of the Full-Text Ingest

The raw full-text source is a PDF extract with recoverable text from 414 of 420 pages. That gives the wiki a much larger Spooner footprint than a normal pamphlet ingest and makes the collection available for later concept-level synthesis.

Relation to Rothbard and Strategy

This reference also matters because the title and curation are Rothbardian. In the present corpus, it shows Rothbard not only as an original author but as a selector of anti-state predecessors. It pairs well with The Politics of Obedience, which examines why people continue to submit to domination once it exists.

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