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Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)

   
[Created: 26 Feb. 2023]
[Updated: February 28, 2023 ]

About the Author

See the entry on this author in the Cato Institute's Encyclopedia of Libertarianism (2008): Randy E. Barnett, “Spooner, Lysander (1808-1881)” <https://www.libertarianism.org/topics/spooner-lysander-1808-1881>.

Smith, George H., ed. The Lysander Spooner Reader. (San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1992). “Introduction,” pp. vii-xx.

 

 

The Trial by Jury (1852)

 

Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury (Boston: John P. Jewett and Co., 1852).

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The "No Treason" Pamphlets (1867-1870)

Lysander Spooner, No Treason Nos. 1, II, and VI (1867-1870)

  • No Treason, No. 1 (Boston: Published by the Author, No. 14 Bromfiled Street, 1867). [facs. PDF]
  • No Treason. No II. The Constitution (Boston: Published by the Author, No. 14 Bromfield Street. 1867). [facs. PDF]
  • No Treason. No VI. The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: Published by the Author, 1870). [facs. PDF]

This book is available in various formats (3 vols in 1):

 

Vices are Not Crimes (1875)

"Vices are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty" in Dio Lewis, Prohibition a Failure, Or, The True Solution of the Temperance Question (Boston: J.R. Osgood and Company, 1875), pp. 107-46.

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  • a facs. PDF version of the original text

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Letters to Senator Thomas Bayard (1882) and President Grover Cleveland (1886)

1. Lysander Spooner, A Letter to Thomas F. Bayard: Challenging his Right - and that of all the Other So-called Senators and Representatives in Congress - to Exercise any Legislative Power whatever over the People of the United States (Boston: Published by the Author, 1882). [facs. PDF]

2. Lysander Spooner, A Letter to Grover Cleveland, on his False Inaugural Address, the Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People (Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, Publisher, 1886). [facs. PDF]

This book is available in various formats (2 vols. in 1):