To clarify, Lysander Spooner was an abolitionist. There's a delightful twist to his argumentation, so don't write him off as merely a racist confederate by the

To clarify, Lysander Spooner was an abolitionist. There's a delightful twist to his argumentation, so don't write him off as merely a racist confederate by the parent's selective regurgitation of eight grade public education history. And the Federalist Papers are a rather dry rehash of the Divine Right of Kings, dressed up in the language of protecting individual rights in order to dupe a newly freed people into accepting a new, better-disguised oligarchy. In my opinion, the philosophy of the U.S. Constitution is much better discussed in Spooner's "No Treason". As for "Failed State", see every government in the history of mankind. Further note the parent's blatant misunderstanding of anarchy by labeling it a state. Anarchy is alive and well today, and always will be so long as free people organize themselves.