First published 1844
The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, prohibiting Private Mails
The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, prohibiting Private Mails by Lysander Spooner is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Lysander Spooner
- First published
- 1844
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 25
- Publisher
- New York: Tribune Printing Establishment, 1844; Online Library of Liberty edition
- License
- Public domain by publication date.
Spooner's 1844 argument that the federal postal monopoly was unconstitutional, written while he ran a private mail company, the American Letter Mail Company, in competition with the government. He contends that Congress has power to establish post offices but not to forbid private citizens from carrying mail for pay.
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- 25 pages, 7 chapters, and about 10,905 words in the edition this archive serves.
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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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Characteristically, Spooner wrote a pamphlet called The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress Prohibiting Private Mails, in which he defended his case.
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