Lysander Spooner's Letter to Grover Cleveland
Free Thoughts
Determining Spooner's Position on Anarchy and Government
Section three of the work introduces the idea that government should be based on fundamental principles and limited to maintaining justice./nSpooner identified as a philosophical anarchist, denying that the state has special authority./nUnlike other anarchists like Murray Rothbard, Spooner does not advocate for the abolition of the state or a market in defense./nThe state can exist, but it should only have power if individuals give explicit consent, including taxation.
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