Natural Law, Or The Science Of Justice

08/06/2014 Left and Right Lysander Spooner

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Lysander Spooner has many great distinctions in the history of political thought. For one thing, he was undoubtedly the only constitutional lawyer in history to evolve into an individualist anarchist; for another, he became steadily and inexorably more radical as he grew older. From the time that Benjamin R. Tucker founded the scintillating periodical, m,in 1881, Spooner and Tucker were the two great theoreticians of the flourishing individualist anarchist movement, and this continued until Spooner's death in 1887, at the age of 79.

Volume 3, Number 1; Winter 1967

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Spooner, Lysander. "Natural Law, Or The Science Of Justice" Left and Right 3, No. 1 (Winter 1967): 53-67.

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