Lysander Spooner's Letter to Grover Cleveland
Free Thoughts
The State Lacks Legitimate Authority
Travis: Spooner has a number of different arguments all leading up to the same conclusion that the state lacks legitimate authority. He talks about being able to sell yourself into slavery and whether you can do that and what, but it was, he is talking about the powers that the government currently has. Travis: The inalienability stuff is really interesting, I think, and in some ways a kind of underappreciated element in the libertarian intellectual tradition. And then there's this part in section seven where he says, if every man, woman and child in the United States had openly signed, sealed, and delivered to you and your associates, a written document, reporting to invest you with
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