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	Lysander Spooner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 – May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist political philosopher, abolitionist, and legal theorist of the 19th century.
		Spooner attained his greatest fame as a figure in the Abolitionist movement to abolish slavery.
		Spooner's pro-freedom argument was embraced by Gerrit Smith, Frederick Douglass, and the Liberty Party, which adopted it as an official text in its 1848 platform.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lysander_Spooner (1425 words)

	Lysander Spooner by Wendy McElroy
		Lysander Spooner was born in rural Massachusetts on January 19, 1808, and named after Lysander of Sparta, the admiral who destroyed the Athenian fleet during the Peloponnesian War.
		Spooner next set up practice in Ohio but as the historian James J. Martin observed, “The career of Spooner the jurist is far less important than that of Spooner the critic of the Constitution and legislative processes.” Thus, his writings, not his legal career, are a proper focus.
		Spooner first analyzes the most common form of consent on which governments rest: that is, the consent of the strong or the majority through which power is imposed on the weak or the minority.
	www.lewrockwell.com /mcelroy/mcelroy107.html (4868 words)

	Rothbard Introduction to Spooner
		Spooner knew that the foundation for individual rights and liberty was tinsel if all values and ethics were arbitrary and subjective.
		And yet, Spooner knew that this was no foundation at all; for the State is far mightier than any individual, and if the individual cannot use a theory of justice as his armor against State oppression, then he has no solid base from which to roll back and defeat it.
		Spooner was basically in the anarchistic, "no-government" Garrisonian wing of the abolitionist movement — the wing that sought the abolition of slavery not through the use of the central government (which was in any case dominated by the South), but by a combination of moral fervor and slave rebellion.
	www.mises.org /rothbardintros/spooner.asp (1763 words)

	LibertyGuide.com - Lysander Spooner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Spooner's petition, "To the Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts," certainly was not the only force to bring about the change, but it did crystalize the prevailing sentiment.
		Spooner declared: "the right of property is the right of supreme, absolute, and irresponsible dominion over anything that is naturally a subject of property, - that is, of ownership.
		Spooner died in 1887 having lived his life has a Deist, lawyer, bank clerk, western land speculator, businessman, abolitionist, inventor, legal writer, economist, and anarchist.
	www.theihs.org /libertyguide/people.php/75860.html (512 words)

	BlackCrayon.com: People: Lysander Spooner: Brief Biography
		Lysander Spooner (1808-1881) was an American legal theorist of the 19th century.
		Later known as an early individualist anarchist, Spooner advocated what he called Natural Law -- or the Science of Justice -- wherein acts of coercion against individuals were considered "illegal" but the so-called criminal acts that violated only man-made legislation were not.
		Lysander Spooner died in 1887 at the age of 79.
	blackcrayon.com /people/spooner/bio (421 words)

	Amazon.com: The Lysander Spooner Reader: Books: George H. Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lysander Spooner was a fascinating man in his own right, as both the Introduction by editor George Smith and the first chapter, "Our Nestor Taken From Us," an obituary by Benjamin Tucker, make clear.
		Spooner was inspired to write this letter when he read that Senator Bayard had expressed the opinion that "it is at least possible for a man to be a legislator and yet be an honest man", lets just say Spooner disagrees.
		Spooner was a lawyer and defended several people in court who were being tried for assisting escaping slaves ie violating the Fugitive Slave Act(many juries took a moral stand against slavery and refused to convict anyone of this crime even when there was no doubt that the accused was guilty).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0930073061?v=glance (2403 words)

	Lysander Spooner, Tucker & Liberty
		Although Spooner treaded lightly over the issue, he made his opinion clear that it was not irrational to kill a president.
		Basically Spooner argued that Guiteau was insane because he identified himself with the government and thought "robbers" would reward him for killing a king of thieves.
		Spooner's strategy had been to find what he shared with the Chicago anarchists, to see if he could help save them from their totally unjust fate.
	uncletaz.com /liberty/spooner.html (2790 words)

	Lysander Spooner : Natural Law (1882)
		From the time that Benjamin R Tucker founded the scintillating periodical, Liberty, in 1881, Spooner and Tucker were the two great theoreticians of the flourishing individualist anarchist movement, and this continued until Spooner's death in 1887, at the age of 79.
		Lysander Spooner published Natural Law, or the Science of Justice as a pamphlet in 1882.
		Spooner meant the pamphlet to be the introduction to a comprehensive masterwork on the natural law of liberty, and it is a great tragedy of the history of political thought that Spooner never lived to complete the projected treatise.
	www.panarchy.org /spooner/law.1882.html (2835 words)

	Lyasander Spooner's Biography
		Spooner writes a letter to the Postmaster General, informing him that he intends to start his own mail company and use it to distribute his own literature (this was illegal).
		Spooner later learned, through a mutal acquaintance, that Booth was interested in him only because she needed a place to live; when she found other means of securing a home, she lost interest.
		Spooner publishes an analysis of the Civil War, A Letter to Charles Sumnerclaiming that if the United States had truly been a free country, the war would have been avoided altogether--he does not believe that the issue was the union, but mrerely that of slavery.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/bright/Spooner/lspoonerbio.html (778 words)

	Profiles of Liberty - Lysander Spooner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Here is a bold statement: Lysander Spooner was undoubtedly one of the most important political thinkers of the 19th century.
		Spooner was great and important because, as a lifelong freedom fighter and literal enemy of tyranny and coercion, Spooner was flat out right.
		Spooner, of course, was violating Federal laws by running a private mail service, and he was ultimately defeated when he ran out of resources to fight his case in the courts.
	www.stanford.edu /~bmasters/spooner.html (1135 words)

	Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Spooner affirmed that government isn't legitimate just because what it's doing is legal.
		The bloodbaths of the 20th century have brought renewed appreciation for the natural rights view that government must be judged by independent moral standards.
		Spooner's thinking proceeded from the key principles that individuals own themselves, and coercion against peaceful people is wrong.
	www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/lysander-spooner.html (383 words)

	Lysander Spooner / Biography
		Spooner inspired both John Brown's anti-slavery raid on Harper's Ferry and the "Spooner Acts" passed by the U.S. Congress to put his private post office out of business and cement the state's postal monopoly.
		Spooner was a master of one of the great forms of political discourse: the pamphlet.
		Spooner is in a class of his own.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /spoonerbio.html (679 words)

	Letter to Charles Sumner (by Lysander Spooner) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lysander Spooner is perhaps best known as the leading philosophical mind of the American abolitionist movement.
		Spooner says that slavery was unconstitutional and that the war could have been avoided by merely enforcing the Constitution.
		Spooner was a lawyer, but his argument was in reality a philosophical and logical one based upon the admission of root principles and the consistency of actors to those principles.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/849212/posts (8486 words)

	Lysander Spooner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lysander Spooner was a Massachusetts lawyer noted for his vigorous and brilliant opposition to the encroachment of the State upon the liberty of the individual.
		If Lysander Spooner cannot inspire a reexamination of everything you learned in high school, then nobody can.
		The question of treason is distinct from that of slavery; and is the same that it would have been, if free States, instead of slave States, had seceded.
	www.wealth4freedom.com /history/spooner.htm (463 words)

	Lysander Spooner
		Lysander Spooner at lysanderspooner.org (with other important works)
		Next I realized that all other pretended "countries" in the world were also hoaxes, frauds, or nothings - there were hucksters, hoaxes, and believers.
		The people who call themselves "governments" are liars and imposters - Spooner's essential message.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/6181/spooner.htm (251 words)

	revolution: lysander spooner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lysander Spooner was a late nineteenth century anarchist.
		The American anarchist movement provided a crucial step in the development of libertarian philosophy, coming between the American abolitionists and the Austrian School economists.
		Spooner was a Massachusetts lawyer active in the abolitionist and anarchist movements.
	www.boogieonline.com /revolution/by_name/S/LysanderSpooner.html (132 words)

	Unconstitutionality of Slavery, by Lysander Spooner, 1845, third edition, 1860
		These abolitionists showed that pursuant to common law, precedents, constitutional law, bill of rights, anti-kidnaping law, and other legal principles, slavery was unconstitutional and illegal.
		This site in the reprint series reprints a scholarly constitutional law text showing likewise in detail, by Lysander Spooner (1808-1887).
		Spooner lists every slavery-related legal and constitutional law issue being raised at the time, then provides a thorough explanation for each one.
	medicolegal.tripod.com /spooneruos.htm (13465 words)

	Lysander Spooner--No Treason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Subject: Spooner's _No_Treason_, section 1 Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was a Massachussetts lawyer noted for his vigorous and brilliant opposition to the encroachment of the State upon the liberty of the individual.
		The following is Spooner's _No_Treason: The Constitution of No Authority_, which _Playboy_ magazine described as "[possibly] the most subversive document ever penned in this nation." Due to the lack of italic characters in ASCII, italicized words are indicated with uppercase letters.
		They lend money to be expended in robbing, enslaving, and murdering their fellow men, solely because, on the whole, such loans pay better than any others.
	www.chrononhotonthologos.com /lawnotes/notreasn.htm (11636 words)

	Alibris: Lysander Spooner
		Spooner's powerful argument for reform of the jury...
		by Lysander Spooner, James Joseph Martin, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)
		In the midst of this endless variety of opinion, what man, or what body of men, has the right to say, in regard to any particular action, or course of action, "we have tried this experiment, and determined every question involved in it?
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Spooner,Lysander (346 words)

	LysanderSpooner.org
		This web site explores the life, history, scholarship, and influence of Lysander Spooner: one of the most provocative, eclectic and prolific American legal writers of the Nineteenth Century.
		Thanks to a generous donor, Spooner's grave will receive perpetual care.
		Donate today and receive a hand-made nail from his birthplace and other premiums.
	www.lysanderspooner.org (83 words)

	Amazon.com: The Lysander Spooner Reader: Books: Lysander Spooner,George H. Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Reassessing the Presidency : The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom by John V. Denson
		OUR NESTOR- Benjamin Tucker's eulogy for Spooner, written in 1887.
		It's also one of the earliest texts on jury nullification(though Spooner doesn't use the term), he calls the jury system the "palladium of liberty" and "a barrier against the tyranny and oppression of the government".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0930073266?v=glance (2476 words)

	No Treason » Blog Archive » We The People? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the third part of his work Barnett attempts to discover a moral foundation for constitutional legitimacy without consent, but he fails.
		Spooner has already demonstrated that the latter are nothing but wind, because rights are an objective moral consequence of man’s nature, and:
		As Spooner demonstrated, it could not modify men’s rights or moral obligations in any way.
	www.no-treason.com /archives/2003/03/26/we-the-people (1108 words)

	Lysander Spooner Quote/Quotation
		Available on the Lysander Spooner website at www.lysanderspooner.org.
		This Lysander Spooner quote is found in these quote Categories:
		Democracy quotes, Despotism quotes, Election quotes, NWO quotes, Slavery quotes, Vote quotes
	quotes.liberty-tree.ca /quote/lysander_spooner_quote_653f (65 words)

	An Essay on the Trial by Jury, Chapter I ....Lysander Spooner, 1852
		An Essay on the Trial by Jury, Chapter I....Lysander Spooner, 1852
		Editors Note: This HTML presentation is scanned in from "An Essay on the Trial By Jury" by Lysander Spooner, First Edition, First Printing, in its entirety without textual change.
		Phrases which appear in italics in the original are shown in Red Italics.
	www.barefootsworld.net /trial01.html (4699 words)

	Lysander Spooner
		Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was a Massachussetts lawyer noted for his vigorous and brilliant opposition to the encroachment of the State upon the liberty of the individual.
		His writings on the unconstitutionality of slavery influenced pre-Civil War thought.
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	www.bralyn.net /etext/literature/lysander.spooner/d-main.html (138 words)

	Lysander Spooner Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The best Lysander Spooner Website in the Universe.
		Another very good site, with a different focus.
		There is no Spoon, but there will always be the Spirit of Lysander Spooner.
	members.aol.com /Dreom/splinks.html (30 words)

	Lysander Spooner
		As further evidence of the general sense of mankind, as to the practical necessity there is that all men's important contracts, especially those of a permanent nature, should be both written and signed, the following facts are pertinent.
		[At this point there is a footnote listing 34 states whose statute books Spooner had examined, all of which had variations of this English statute; the footnote also quotes part of the Massachussetts statute.]
		The principle of the statute, be it observed, is, not merely that written contracts shall be signed, but also that all contracts, except for those specially exempted---generally those that are for small amounts, and are to remain in force for but a short time---shall be both written and signed.
	www.mtlp.org /sublit/treason.htm (17586 words)

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