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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

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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

by Lysander Spooner

EN·~5 hours·30 chapters

Chapters

30 total

A LETTER

0:23

A LETTER TO GROVER CLEVELAND.

0:01

Section I.

6:59

Section II.

2:37

Section III.

1:30

Section IV.

2:05

Section V.

4:41

Section VI.

7:20

Section VII.

2:08

Section VIII.

8:03

Description

A bold, polemical pamphlet opens with a direct address to the nation’s leader, questioning the sincerity of his inaugural words. The author frames his critique as a logical dissection of the speech, arguing that the government’s self‑portrait as a guarantor of equal justice is fundamentally at odds with the lived reality of its institutions.

From there, the essay unfolds as a spirited defense of natural law, insisting that true justice is an immutable principle that no legislature can create or revoke. By juxtaposing the authority of lawmakers with the immutable laws of science, the writer paints statutes as empty commands, urging readers to recognize the inherent rights of every individual. Listeners will be drawn into a fervent call for a government limited to protecting these natural rights, rather than imposing artificial rules that betray the very notion of liberty.

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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 On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People

Language

en

Duration

~5 hours (320K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Curtis Weyant, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2011-01-20

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner

1808–1887

A fierce 19th-century critic of slavery and state power, this American legal thinker is still remembered for writing boldly about natural rights, justice, and individual freedom. He also became famous for launching a private mail company to challenge the U.S. postal monopoly.

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