# No Treason — Character guide

> Key figures in No Treason by Lysander Spooner.

- [a man](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/characters/a_man.md): He stands in for any person asked to prove he has bound himself to a government he never personally agreed to obey. His central tension is between the safety of silent compliance and the dangerous honesty of withholding 
- [Unknown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/characters/unknown.md): This shadowy first-person presence speaks as 'myself,' the ordinary individual whose rights are weighed against the state's demands. The tension is intimate: can anyone be bound to obey a power he never personally author
- [these men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/characters/these_men.md): They are the many whose contracts, friendships, and wars supply Spooner's examples, from Benedict Arnold's betrayal to the open enmity of the Southern people. Their defining tension is between professed loyalty and decla
- [any member of Congress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/characters/any_member_of_congress.md): A generic congressional figure used as a rhetorical target.
- [Congress](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/characters/congress.md): As the institutional voice of the United States, Congress stands opposite the individual whose consent Spooner says must be personal and voluntary. The tension lies in whether a government can define and punish treason w
- [the Rothschilds](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/characters/the_rothschilds.md): The Rothschild banking family, referenced as a powerful entity.
- [D](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/characters/d.md): A recurring pronoun-based referent, possibly a character or placeholder.
- [Knaves](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/characters/knaves.md): A group labeled as knaves, likely a rhetorical collective.
- [Mr. B](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/characters/mr_b.md): A named individual, possibly a historical or fictional figure.
- [Benedict Arnold](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/characters/benedict_arnold.md): Historical figure mentioned as a traitorous example.

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