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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...

Lysander Spooner

A Letter To Grover Cleveland (1886)

A Letter To Grover Cleveland (1886) by Lysander Spooner

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.

BY LYSANDER SPOONER

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Lysander Spooner

An Essay on Trial by Jury (1853)

An Essay on Trial by Jury (1853) by Lysander Spooner

NOTE.

This volume, it is presumed by the author, gives what will generally be considered satisfactory evidence,— though not all the evidence,— of what the Common Law trial by jury really is. In a future volume, if it should be called for, it is designed to corroborate the grounds taken in th...

Lysander Spooner

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

No Treason VI - The Constitution of No Authority (1870) by Lysander Spooner

The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports, at most, to be only a contrac...

Clint Richardson

Strawman Story - The Real Story Of Your Artificial Person (2017)

A private work by: clint > richardson

—Volume I—

Strawman Story - The Real Story Of Your Artificial Person (2017) by Clint Richardson

“He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart...
And in our own despair, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”

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