Lysander Spooner Quote

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.


The collected works of Lysander Spooner (ed. 1971)


There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance...

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance...

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance...

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance...