Constitutional Law & Theory

Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency, and Banking (1843)

The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress, Prohibiting Private Mails (1844)

The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1845, 1860)

CONTENTS OF PART FIRST.  [PDF]
CHAPTER I.: WHAT IS LAW? [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER II.: WRITTEN CONSTITUTIONS. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER III.: THE COLONIAL CHARTERS. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER IV.: COLONIAL STATUTES.[SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER V.: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER VI.: THE STATE CONSTITUTIONS OF 1789. [SEARCHABLE TEXT][PDF]
CHAPTER VII.: THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER VIII.: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
SECONDLY. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER IX.: THE INTENTIONS OF THE CONVENTION. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER X.: THE PRACTICE OF THE GOVERNMENT. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER XI.: THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PEOPLE. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER XII.: THE STATE CONSTITUTIONS OF 1845. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER XIII.: THE CHILDREN OF SLAVES ARE BORN FREE. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]

A Defense for Fugitive Slaves, Against the Acts of Congress of February 12, 1793 & September 18, 1850 (1850)

An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

Economics and Public Policy

Poverty: Its Illegal Causes, and Legal Cure, Part 1 (1846)

Who Caused the Reduction of Postage? Ought He To Be Paid? (1850)

A New System of Paper Currency (1861)

Our Mechanical Industry, As Affected By Our Present Currency System: An Argument for the Author's New System of Paper Currency (1862)

Articles of Association of the Spooner Copyright Company for Massachussetts (1863)

Considerations for Bankers, and Holders of United States Bonds (1864)

The Law of Prices: A Demonstration of the Necessity for an Indefinite Increase of Money (1877)

Our Financiers: Their Ignorance, Usurpations and Frauds (1877)

Gold and Silver as Standards of Value: The Flagrant Cheat in Regard to Them (1878)

Universal Wealth Sown to be Easily Attainable, Part First (1879)

Political & Legal Theory

An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

The Law of Intellectual Property (1855)

No Treason (1867-1870)

No. 1 [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
No. 2 [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
No. 6 [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]

Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty (1875)

Natural Law; or The Science of Justice: A Treatise on Natural Law, Natural Justice, Natural Rights, Natural Liberty, and Natural Society; Showing That All Legislation Whatsoever Is An Absurdity, A Usurpation, and A Crime. Part First (1882)

A Letter to Scientists and Inventors, on the Science of Justice, and Their Right of Perpetual Property in Their Disclosures and Inventions (1884)

Political Texts

To the Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts (1835)

Revolution: The Only Remedy for the Oppressed Classes of Ireland, England, and Other Parts of the British Empire, No. 1 (1880)

A Letter to Thomas F. Bayard: Challenging His Right -- And That of All the Other So-Called Senators and Representatives in Congress -- To Exercise Any Legislative Power Whatever Over the People of the United States (1882)

A Letter to Grover Cleveland, on His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People (1886)

Religion

The Deist's Immortality, and An Essay on Man's Accountability For His belief (1834)

The Deist's Reply to the Alleged Supernatural Evidences of Christianity (1836) [PDF]

CHAPTER I.: THE EARLY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY. [SEARCHABLE TEXT]
CHAPTER 2.: THE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF JESUS. [SEARCHABLE TEXT]
CHAPTER 3.: THE ALLEGED MIRACLES OF JESUS. [SEARCHABLE TEXT]
CHAPTER 4.: THE PROPHECIES. [SEARCHABLE TEXT]
CHAPTER 5.: THE RESURRECTION. [SEARCHABLE TEXT]

Slavery

The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1845, 1860)

CONTENTS OF PART FIRST.  [PDF]
CHAPTER I.: WHAT IS LAW? [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER II.: WRITTEN CONSTITUTIONS. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER III.: THE COLONIAL CHARTERS. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER IV.: COLONIAL STATUTES.[SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER V.: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER VI.: THE STATE CONSTITUTIONS OF 1789. [SEARCHABLE TEXT][PDF]
CHAPTER VII.: THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER VIII.: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
SECONDLY. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER IX.: THE INTENTIONS OF THE CONVENTION. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER X.: THE PRACTICE OF THE GOVERNMENT. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER XI.: THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PEOPLE. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER XII.: THE STATE CONSTITUTIONS OF 1845. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]
CHAPTER XIII.: THE CHILDREN OF SLAVES ARE BORN FREE. [SEARCHABLE TEXT] [PDF]

A Defense for Fugitive Slaves, Against the Acts of Congress of February 12, 1793 & September 18, 1850 (1850)

Illegality of the Trial of John W. Webster (1850)

A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery (and) To the Non-Slaveholders of the South (1858)

Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (1860)

Letter to Charles Sumner (1864)