Author:Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner
(1808–1887)

Lysander Spooner

Works

• The Deist's Immortality, and An Essay on Man's Accountability For His belief (1834)external source
• To the Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts (1835)
• The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity (1836)[1]
• Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking (1843)[2]
• The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, Prohibiting Private Mails (1844)[3]
• The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1845, 1860) (transcription project)
• Poverty, Its Illegal Causes and Legal Cure (1846)
• A Defense for Fugitive Slaves, Against the Acts of Congress of February 12, 1793 & September 18, 1850 (1850) (external scan)
• Illegality of the Trial of John W. Webster (1850)
• Who Caused the Reduction of Postage? Ought He To Be Paid? (1850) (transcription project)
• An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852) (transcription project)
• The Law of Intellectual Property (1855)[4]
• A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery (and) To the Non-Slaveholders of the South (1858)[5]
• Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (1860) (external scan)
• A New System of Paper Currency (1861)[6]
• Our Mechanical Industry, As Affected By Our Present Currency System: An Argument for the Author's New System of Paper Currency (1862)[7]
• Articles of Association of the Spooner Copyright Company for Massachussetts (1863)
• Considerations for Bankers, and Holders of United States Bonds (1864) (external scan)
• Letter to Charles Sumner (1864)
• No Treason (book scan)
  • No. 1. (1867)
  • No. II. (1867)
  • No. VI. (1870)
• A new banking system: the needful capital for rebuilding the burnt district (1873) (external scan)
• Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875)
• The Law of Prices: A Demonstration of the Necessity for an Indefinite Increase of Money (1877)
• Our Financiers: Their Ignorance, Usurpations and Frauds (1877)
• Gold and Silver as Standards of Value: The Flagrant Cheat in Regard to Them (1878)
• Universal Wealth Sown to be Easily Attainable, Part First (1879)
• Revolution: The Only Remedy for the Oppressed Classes of Ireland, England, and Other Parts of the British Empire, No. 1 (1880)
• Natural Law; or The Science of Justice: 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. Part First. (1882)
  • Chapter I. The Science of Justice. external source
  • Chapter II. The Science of Justice (Continued)
  • Chapter III. Natural Law Contrasted With Legislation.
• 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, published in Liberty I, No. 21 (27 May 1882), pp. 2–3
• A Letter to Scientists and Inventors, on the Science of Justice, and Their Right of Perpetual Property in Their Disclosures and Inventions (1884)
• 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 (1886) external source
• Lets Abolish Government, compilation reprinted 1972 external source
  • No Treason
  • An Essay on the Trial by Jury
  • 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

Works about Spooner

• "Spooner Memorial Resolutions" (1887) in Instead of a Book by Benjamin R. Tucker.
• Review of Lysander Spooner's essay on the unconstitutionality of slavery. Reprinted from the "Anti-slavery standard," with additions by Wendell Phillips, 1847 external source