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Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 — May 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphletist, political philosopher, Unitarian and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition.
54 quotes from Lysander Spooner: 'Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.', 'A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.', and 'But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as ...
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.
Chapter 1. Lysander Spooner came from the flintly farmland of rural New England. He was born January 19, 1808, on his father's farm near Athol, Massachusetts, the second child and second son in a family of six sons and three daughters. Not a single word has survived from Lysander's hand about his father, Asa Spooner (1778-1851); the father ...
Jan 12, 2019 · Lysander Spooner. Monopoly. Post Office. Private Enterprise. USPS. Naomi Mathew. X. This is a story about a philosopher, entrepreneur, lawyer, economist, abolitionist, anarchist—the list goes on. As his obituary summarizes, “To destroy tyranny, root and branch, was the great object of his life.”
A Defense for Fugitive Slaves, Against the Acts of Congress of February 12, 1793 & September 18, 1850 (1850) Illegality of the Trial of John W. Webster (1850) A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery (and) To the Non-Slaveholders of the South (1858)
Jul 4, 2000 · Jim Powell. The greatest natural rights thinker of the 19th century was the American lawyer and maverick individualist Lysander Spooner. He responded to the tumultuous events of his era, including the Panic of 1837 and the Civil War, with pamphlets about natural rights, slavery, money, trial by jury and other timely subjects.
