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Subject Area: Political Theory
Topic: The American Revolution and Constitution

Lysander Spooner, The Unconstitutionality of Slavery [1860]

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The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (Boston: Bela Marsh, 1860).


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The first of a two part series on Spooner’s theory that the institution of slavery was not supported by the ideas behind the constitution and was thus “unconstitutional.”

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