Lysander Spooner
Lysander Spooner was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphletist, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition.
An Essay on the Trial By Jury
In a world of unjust laws, a group must decide the fate of not only the accused, but of the law itself.
By Lysander Spooner
A New Banking System The Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District
Imagine a world remade, where money grows from the ground and is as abundant as the railways crossing the nation.
By Lysander Spooner
No Treason, Vol. VI.: The Constitution of No Authority
An explosive argument erupts, dissecting the U.S. Constitution's legitimacy, claiming it's an outdated pact enforced by coercion, not consent, on generations who never agreed to its terms.
By Lysander Spooner
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
In a world ruled by laws, a group of citizens holds the power to challenge the very fairness of those laws, becoming the last defense against tyranny.
By Lysander Spooner
A Letter to Thomas F. Bayard
One man challenges a senator to rethink the very foundation of American law, arguing that the government's power is based on taking rights, not giving them.
By Lysander Spooner
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Uncover the explosive argument that America's gravest injustice was never truly supported by its own laws, challenging the very foundation of a nation divided.
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
A fierce advocate for personal freedom exposes the government's supposed lies, revealing how supposed protectors of law bring on poverty and enslavement.
By Lysander Spooner