Titles by Lysander Spooner

1808 – 1887

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) 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.

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see the chronological and thematic listing of all 36 works by Spooner in the OLL collection. This provides access to the HTML versions of all of his works

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Titles

Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (1860)

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The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner (1834-1886), in one vol.

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A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

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An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

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The Law of Intellectual Property (1855)

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Letter to Charles Sumner (1864)

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A Letter to Grover Cleveland (1886)

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A Letter to Thomas Bayard (1882)

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Natural Law; or the Science of Justice (1882)

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No Treason. No. I (1867)

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No Treason. No. II. The Constitution (1867)

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No Treason. No. VI. The Constitution of No Authority (1870)

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A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, and To the Non-Slaveholders of the South (1858)

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The Shorter Works and Pamphlets of Lysander Spooner, 2 vols. (1834-1884)

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The Shorter Works and Pamphlets of Lysander Spooner, Vol. 1 (1834-1861)

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The Shorter Works and Pamphlets of Lysander Spooner, Vol. 2 (1862-1884)

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The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1860)

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The Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Part Second (1860)

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The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, prohibiting Private Mails (1844)

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The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner (1834-1886), in 5 vols.

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The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner (1834-1886), vol. 1 (1834-1850)

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The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner (1834-1886), vol. 2 (1853-1855)

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The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner (1834-1886), vol. 3 (1858-1862)

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The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner (1834-1886), vol. 4 (1863-1873)

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The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner (1834-1886), vol. 5 (1875-1886)

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