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Lysander Spooner

NATURAL LAW OR THE SCIENCE OF JUSTICE (1882)

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.

NATURAL LAW OR THE SCIENCE OF JUSTICE (1882) by Lysander Spooner

The science of mine and thine-the science of justice-is the science of all human rights ; of all...

Lysander Spooner

Natural Law Contrasted With Legislation (2018)

Natural Law Contrasted With Legislation (2018) by Lysander Spooner

A two-sided foldable pamphlet in 4 parts.

Part I

Natural law, natural justice, being a principle that is naturally applicable and adequate to the rightful settlement of every possible controversy that can arise among men, being, too, the only standard by which any controversy...

Lysander Spooner

No Treason No 1 - The Constitution of No Authority (1867)

No Treason No 1 - The Constitution of No Authority (1867) by Lysander Spooner

INTRODUCTORY

THE question of treason is distinct from that of slavery and is the same that it would have been, if free States, instead of slave States, had seceded.

On the part of the North, the war was carried on, not to liberate the slaves, but by a government th...

Lysander Spooner

A Letter to Thomas F Bayard (1882)

A Letter to Thomas F Bayard (1882) by 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."

by Lysander Spooner

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Lysander Spooner

Vices are not Crimes (1875)

Vices are not Crimes (1875) by Lysander Spooner

“Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property”

Editor’s Introduction

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was a legal theorist, abolitionist, and radical individualist who sta...