Biographical sketch

Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) was an American abolitionist and legal theorist. In The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, he argued that the United States Constitution did not authorize slavery. In No Treason, he argued that the Constitution could not bind anyone who had never personally consented to it. He contributed to Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty late in his life.

Biographical source: National Park Service

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Works about Lysander Spooner

• S. E. Parker’s review of Men Against the State · Includes a discussion of Spooner’s legal and political writing.

Selected bibliography

• The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1845).
• No Treason. No. VI. The Constitution of No Authority (1870).