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Lysander Spooner (January 19, 1808 — May 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphletist, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition.
Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was a legal theorist, abolitionist, and radical individualist who started his own mail company in order to challenge the monopoly held by the US government. He wrote on the constitutionality of slavery, natural law, trial by jury, intellectual property, paper currency, and banking.
Jan 12, 2019 · Lysander Spooner was an anarchist who didn’t merely preach about his ideas: He lived them. No example illustrates this better than Spooner’s legal battle against the US postal monopoly.
Lysander Spooner came from the flintly farmland of rural New England. He was born January 19, 1808, on his father's farm near Athol, Massachusetts, the second child and second son in a family of six sons and three daughters.
Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was a legal theorist, abolitionist, and radical individualist who started his own mail company in order to challenge the monopoly held by the US government. He wrote on the constitutionality of slavery, natural law, trial by jury, intellectual property, paper currency, and banking.
Jan 3, 2016 · Liberty Matters - The Significance of Lysander Spooner. Born in rural Athol, Massachusetts, Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) was a man of many hats: lawyer, radical abolitionist, land speculator, entrepreneur, legal theorist, and eventually individualist anarchist.
Website dedicated to the individualist anarchist Lysander Spooner.
The main purpose of this essay is to articulate the ideas of the last powerful advocate of natural rights in nineteenth century America. That last powerful advocate was the Massachusetts born radical libertarian Lysander Spooner (1808–1887).
Jul 24, 2018 · The American Mail Company was founded in 1844 by Lysander Spooner. Even before his battle with USPS—which was then known as the U.S. Post Office—Spooner had quite the history as an activist. He was a self-educated lawyer, abolitionist, political philosopher, and supporter of the labor movement.
Author:Lysander Spooner About This Title: The first of a two part series on Spooner’s theory that the institution of slavery was not supported by the ideas behind the constitution and was thus “unconstitutional.” Online Library of Liberty: The Unconstitutionality of Slavery PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org ...
