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Lysander Spooner was an American abolitionist, entrepreneur, lawyer, essayist, natural rights legal theorist, pamphleteer, political philosopher, and writer often associated with the Boston anarchist tradition.
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business · American abolitionist and legal theorist (1808–1887) · lawyer · journalist · essayist · philosopher · peace activist · businessperson · opinion journalist · anarchist · entrepreneur · also Lysander Spooner, Spooner
Born 19 January 1808 · Died 14 May 1887 · Q538091
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almost all fortunes are made out of the capital and labour of other men than those who realize them. Indeed, large fortunes could rarely be made at all by one individual, except by his sponging capital and labor from others. And the usury laws are the means by which he does it.
A Letter to Grover Cleveland, on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People
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“almost all fortunes are made out of the capital and labour of other men than those who realize them. Indeed, large fortunes could rarely be made at all by one individual, except by his sponging capital and labor from others. And the usury laws are the means by which he does it.”
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CounterPunch: For the Love of Lysander Spooner, Let the Republic of Texas Secede
The Washington Post: Happy Birthday, Lysander Spooner!
jagranjosh.com: Anarchism theorist: Lysander Spooner
Died 1887-05-14.
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At the age of 79 in his nearby residence at 109 Myrtle Street, Boston
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“A Letter to Grover Cleveland, on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People”
“A Letter to Scientists and Inventors, on the Science of Justice”
“A Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”
“Natural Law, or the Science of Justice”
Spooner advocated for the Irish to rise up and kill their British landlords, since he believed the landlords were denying them their natural rights
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“Gold and Silver as Standards of Value: The Flagrant Cheat in Regard to Them”
“Our Financiers: Their Ignorance, Usurpations and Frauds”
“Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty”
“Considerations for Bankers, and Holders of United States Bonds”
“A New System of Paper Currency”
“Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States”
“A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery, and To the Non-Slaveholders of the South”
“The Law of Intellectual Property”
That strengthened the federal government's monopoly finally put him out of business
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“Illegality of the Trial of John W. Webster”
“Poverty: Its Illegal Causes, and Legal Cure”
Contributed to a controversy among abolitionists over whether the Constitution supported the institution of slavery
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“The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, Prohibiting Private Mails”
Spooner started the American Letter Mail Company, which competed with the United States Post Office, whose rates were very high
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“Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking”
“The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity”
The legislature abolished the restriction
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“The Deist's Immortality, and An Essay on Man's Accountability for His Belief”
Born 1808-01-19.
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