January 19, 1808 — May 14, 1887
Description : The greatest natural rights thinker of the 19th century was the American lawyer and maverick individualist Lysander Spooner. He responded to the tumultuous events of his era, including the Panic of 1837 and the Civil War, with pamphlets about natural rights, slavery, money, trial by jury and other timely subjects. (From : Jim Powell Bio)
Tags : anarchist, individualist, philosopher, theorist, abolitionist, american, essayist, labor unionist, writer.
Quotes :
"There is no particle of truth in the notion that the majority have a right to rule, or exercise arbitrary power over, the minority simply because the former are more numerous than the latter. Two men have no more natural right to rule one than one has to rule two." (From : "Free Political Institutions," by Lysander Spooner.)
"Again, the doctrine that the minority ought to submit to the will of the majority proceeds, not upon the principle that government is formed by voluntary association and for an agreed purpose on the part of all who contribute to its support, but upon the presumption that all government must be practically a state of war and plunder between opposing parties..." (From : "Free Political Institutions," by Lysander Spooner.)
"The doctrine that the majority have a right to rule proceeds upon the principle that minorities have no right in the government; for certainly the minority cannot be said to have any rights in a government so long as the majority alone determine what their rights shall be." (From : "Free Political Institutions," by Lysander Spooner.)
Biography :
Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 – May 14, 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, political philosopher, essayist, pamphlet writer, Unitarian Christian abolitionist, supporter of the labor movement, legal theorist, and entrepreneur of the nineteenth century. He is also known for competing with the U.S. Post Office with his American Letter Mail Company, which closed after legal problems with the federal government.From : Wikipedia.
Works :
Author of Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (November 30, 1859)
Author of A Defence for Fugitive Slaves, against the Acts of Congress of February 12, 1793, and September 18, 1850 (November 30, 1849)
Author of A New Banking System (November 30, 1872)
Author of Free Political Institutions (November 30, 1911)
Author of The Law of Intellectual Property (November 30, 1854)
Author of Natural Law (January 01, 1970)
Author of No Treason I (November 30, 1866)
Author of No Treason II (November 30, 1866)
Author of No Treason VI (November 30, 1869)
Author of Poverty: Its Illegal Causes and Legal Cures (November 30, 1845)
Author of An Essay on the Trial by Jury (November 30, 1851)
Author of Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress (November 30, 1843)
Author of Unconstitutionality of Slavery (November 30, 1859)
Author of A Letter to Thomas Bayard (May 27, 1882)
Author of Letter to Charles Sumner (October 12, 1864)
Author of A Letter to Grover Cleveland (November 30, 1885)
Author of Thomas Drew vs. John M. Clark: Argument For Petitioner (January 01, 1970)
Author of Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking (November 30, 1842)
Author of Vices Are Not Crimes (November 30, 1874)
Author of The Deist’s Immortality (January 01, 1970)
Chronology :
January 19, 1808 : Lysander Spooner's Birth Day.
May 14, 1887 : Lysander Spooner's Death Day.
November 16, 2016 : Lysander Spooner's Added.
January 09, 2022 : Lysander Spooner's Updated.
Links :
• Anarchy Archives: Lysander Spooner Archive
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/Spooner/index.html
• Anarchist Library: Lysander Spooner
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/lysander-spooner
• Wikipedia: Lysander Spooner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner
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