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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...