Front Page Titles (by Subject) Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner

1808 - 1887

About the Author

Spooner was a legal theorist, abolitionist, and radical individualist who started his own mail company in order to challenge the monopoly held by the US government. He wrote on the constitutionality of slavery, natural law, trial by jury, intellectual property, paper currency, and banking.

In The Library:

• author: Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (1860)
• author: A Defence for Fugitive Slaves, against the Acts of Congress of February 12, 1793, and September 18, 1850 (1850)
• author: An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)
• author: The Law of Intellectual Property; or An Essay on the Right of Authors and Inventors to a Perpetual Property in their Ideas (1855)
• author: Letter to Charles Sumner (1864)
• author: 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 (1886)
• author: A Letter to Thomas Bayard: Challenging his right - and that of all the other so-called Senators and Representatives in Congress - to exercise and Legislative Power whatever over the People of the United States (1882)
• author: Natural Law; or the Science of Justice: A Treatise on Natural Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society; showing that all Legislation whatsoever is an Absurdity, a Usurpation, and a Crime. Part First. (1882)
• author: No Treason. No. I (1867)
• author: No Treason. No. II. The Constitution (1867)
• author: No Treason. No. VI. The Constitution of No Authority (1870)
• author: A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, and To the Non-Slaveholders of the South (1858)
• author: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1860)
• author: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Part Second (1860)
• author: The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, prohibiting Private Mails (1844)