The Complete Works of Lysander Spooner

Madison & Adams presents this meticulously edited collection of Lysander Spooner's political, economics, legal and constitutional works, as well as writings on religion and works on slavery and abolition.

Contents:

Political Works

No Treason, No. I

No Treason. No II - The Constitution

No Treason. No VI - The Constitution of No Authority

Vices are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty

No. 1. Revolution

Natural Law; or the Science of Justice

A Letter to Thomas F. Bayard

A Letter to Grover Cleveland

Writings on Economics:

Poverty: Its Illegal Causes and Legal Cure

A New System of Paper Currency

Our Mechanical Industry as Affected by our Present Currency System

Considerations for Bankers, and Holders of United States Bonds

A New Banking System: The Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District

Our Financiers: Their Ignorance, Usurpations, and Frauds

The Law of Prices

Gold and Silver as Standards of Value: The Flagrant Cheat in Regard to Them

Universal Wealth Shown to be Easily Attainable

Law & Constitution :

"To the Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts." Worcester Republican

Supreme Court of United States, January Term, 1839. Spooner vs. M'Connell, et al.

Constitutional Law Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking

The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, Prohibiting Private Mails

Illegality of the Trial of John W. Webster

An Essay on the Trial by Jury

The Law of Intellectual Property

Articles of Association of the Spooner Copyright Company for Massachusetts

A Letter to Scientist and Inventors, on the Science of Justice, and their Right of Perpetual Property in their Discoveries and Inventions

Works on Religion:

The Deist's Immortality, and an Essay on Man's Accountability for his Belief

The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity

Works on Slavery and Abolition:

A Defence for Fugitive Slaves

A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery

Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States

The Unconstitutionality of Slavery









Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was an American political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian, abolitionist, legal theorist, and entrepreneur of the nineteenth century. He was a strong advocate of the labor movement and severely anti-authoritarian and individualist in his political views. Spooner's most famous writing includes the seminal abolitionist book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, and No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority which opposed treason charges against secessionists.