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First published 1882

A Letter to Thomas Bayard

by Lysander Spooner

Boston: Published by the Author, 1882; Online Library of Liberty edition11 pages

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Author
Lysander Spooner
First published
1882
Format
PDF and EPUB
Pages
11
Publisher
Boston: Published by the Author, 1882; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

An 1882 open letter to Senator Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, first printed in Benjamin Tucker's Liberty. Spooner challenges the right of Bayard and all other members of Congress to exercise any legislative power over the people, rejecting the claim that the wise and well-born are entitled to govern others without their consent.

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Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) was an American individualist anarchist, abolitionist, and legal theorist. This archive holds 15 of Spooner's works.

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4 chapters · 4,025 words · free to read here

  1. LETTER To Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware:
  2. About Liberty Fund
  3. The Online Library of Liberty
  4. Copyright Information
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Lysander Spooner 1808–1887

Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) was an American individualist anarchist, abolitionist, and legal theorist. He is known for establishing the American Letter Mail Company to compete with the United States Post Office and for authoring radical… Read more about Lysander Spooner.

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