Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)

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No. Title Page Author The Work Year Discipline Collection
1 Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury (Boston: John P. Jewett and Co., 1852).
1852 Law; Political Thought Guillaumin
2 Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
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). 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).
1882 Political Thought Guillaumin
3 Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
Lysander Spooner, No Treason, No. 1 (Boston: Published by the Author, No. 14 Bromfiled Street, 1867); No Treason. No II. The Constitution (Boston: Published by the Author, No. 14 Bromfield Street. 1867); No Treason. No VI. The Constitution of No Authority (Boston: Published by the Author, 1870).
1867 Political Thought Guillaumin
4 Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
The Selected Works of Lysander Spooner (1850-1886) (2021).
Editor's Note: Of the more than thirty known works of the American individualist anarchist thinker Lysander Spooner we have selected 14 which deal with the questions of slavery and its abolition (6 items, and his political theory of the legitimacy of the American Constitution (8 items). The former group were written during the 1850s and 1860s, while the latter come from the post-civil war period up to the mid-1880s. This anthology is available in [plain HTML].
1850 Political Thought Anthology
5 Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)
Lysander Spooner, Vices are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875).
Editor's Note: In Dio Lewis, Prohibition a Failure, Or, The True Solution of the Temperance Question (Boston: J.R. Osgood and Company, 1875), pp. 107-46.
1875 Political Thought Guillaumin