# Hypocrisy of the North in No Treason

> Theme guide for No Treason by Lysander Spooner.

The author condemns the North for waging war to compel obedience while claiming to uphold government by consent, calling this a self-contradictory and fraudulent justification for the Civil War.

## Where it surfaces

- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/chapters/i): The North's claim to uphold government by consent while waging a war of force to compel submission is the chapter's central critique.
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/chapters/v): Implicitly critiques the Northern claim to a free government while potentially applying a despotic definition of treason.
- [XIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/no_treason_se/chapters/xix): The North's claims of abolishing slavery and preserving liberty are exposed as frauds masking their true motive of economic domination.

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