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Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 — May 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, ... His book The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, published in 1845, ...
Lysander Spooner by Amory Nelson Hardy. The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1845) was a book by American abolitionist Lysander Spooner arguing that the United States Constitution prohibited slavery. [1] [2] This view was contrary to that of William Lloyd Garrison who opposed the Constitution on the grounds that it was pro-slavery.
Spooner was an outspoken abolitionist (writing The Unconstitutionality of Slavery in 1845) and advocate of universal freedom and natural rights. Still, he had been horrified by the brutality of the war and the lack of a legitimate constitutional basis for violently conquering people who wanted to leave a federation that had been consensually ...
Spooner, the head of the American Letter Mail Company, has transmitted to the Department at Washington, a written admission of his conveyance of letters, &c., with all the necessary facts in the case, to make it a purely legal question, so that the Postmaster General has nothing to do but take the whole subject to the Supreme Court of the ...
Original – Lysander Spooner, who, to quote his article, was an " American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphletist, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition." Reason Stable lead image for a notable person, now done being restored.
'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, although the notion of Spooner as an anarchist has been challenged by legal historian Clay S. Conrad, who pointed out that Spooner ...
Lysander Spooner claimed that slavery had been abolished by the Declaration of Independence and that its continuance after 1776 was unlawful. [30] ... 1845 1846 1847
Lysander Spooner was a libertarian, individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement and legal theorist of the 19th century. Spooner is also known for competing with the United States Post Office Department with his American Letter Mail Company , which was forced out of business by the ...