# Appendix explained — No Treason

> Chapter companion for No Treason by Lysander Spooner.

## What happens

The author argues that the Constitution, never having been signed or agreed to as a contract, is not binding on anyone and is unfit to exist, either because it authorized the existing government or was powerless to prevent it.

## Themes in this chapter

### Constitution as Dead Contract

The Constitution is described as never having been a binding contract and now unfit to exist.

## Character check-ins

### a man

The writer, expressing personal opinion on the Constitution's validity.

## Key lines

> Inasmuch as the Constitution was never signed, nor agreed to, by anybody, as a contract, and therefore never bound anybody, and is now binding upon nobody

Since the Constitution was never signed or accepted as a contract, it never obligated anyone and currently obligates no one.

_The author asserts the Constitution's lack of contractual validity._

> it is either has authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

The Constitution either allowed the current government or could not stop it; either way, it should not continue.

_The author concludes the Constitution is unfit for existence._

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