Ideologies / Anarcho-Capitalist / Lysander Spooner
§ The minds · 1808–1887 · United States · Abolitionist & theorist
Lysander Spooner
No treason
The constitution holds no authority over anyone.
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Governance−92
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The 19th-century abolitionist and legal theorist whose 'No Treason' denied the Constitution any authority, prefiguring market anarchism by a century.
social
Radical abolitionist; far ahead of his time on liberty.
economic
Free competition — he ran a mail company against the state monopoly.
governance
The state has no legitimate authority; no one consented to it.
Notable for
- 'No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority'
- Ran a private postal company
- Radical abolitionism
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