Independence Day, 2021

If you're familiar with Lysander Spooner and you've heard my reading of his "No Treason," you might guess that I'm a far bigger fan of the Declaration of Independence than the Constitution. While there are some good ideas expressed in the Constitution, it has been powerless to prevent our current government from growing to a dangerous size. The Declaration of Independence, however, is a declaration of secession, and, as such, is much more important from the perspective of an anarchist. Like the Constitution, the DoI has a few problems in it, but the basic idea, that a subset of some political organization can choose to dissolve its connections to that organization when their purposes are no longer being served, is extremely important and may be the last hope for peaceful dissolution of the coercive state apparatus.

In this video, I don't read through the whole thing, but I highlight various parts and give my thoughts. Hope you enjoy.