A Letter to Grover Cleveland by Lysander Spooner
Read now or download (free!)
| Choose how to read this book | Url | Size | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read online (web) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35016.html.images | 378 kB | ||||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35016.epub3.images | 190 kB | ||||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35016.epub.images | 194 kB | ||||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35016.epub.noimages | 177 kB | ||||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35016.kf8.images | 379 kB | ||||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35016.kindle.images | 343 kB | ||||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35016.txt.utf-8 | 347 kB | ||||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/35016/pg35016-h.zip | 184 kB | ||||
| There may be more files related to this item. | ||||||
About this eBook
| Author | Spooner, Lysander, 1808-1887 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 20015283 |
| Title |
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 |
| Note | Reading ease score: 45.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. |
| 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) |
| Summary | "A Letter to Grover Cleveland" by Lysander Spooner is a political treatise written in the late 19th century. This work addresses the author's critiques and insights regarding the inaugural address of President Grover Cleveland and the broader implications of governmental authority, laws, and justice. Spooner articulates a strong libertarian perspective, arguing against the legitimacy of laws created by lawmakers and the detrimental impact of such laws on individual rights and freedoms. The opening of the text presents Spooner's argument that Cleveland's inaugural address reflects a false narrative of justice attributed to a government that, according to Spooner, operates outside the principles of natural justice. He challenges the very notion that lawmakers can create laws that embody justice, asserting instead that true justice is immutable and cannot be altered by human authority. Spooner suggests that the government has usurped individual rights under the guise of protection and order, leading to widespread injustice, poverty, and servitude among the populace. He emphasizes the need for individuals to understand and reclaim their inherent rights against the encroachment of governmental authority, setting the stage for a critical examination of the intersection between power and personal freedom. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | JK: Political science: Political inst. and pub. Admin.: United States |
| Subject | United States -- Politics and government |
| Subject | Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 35016 |
| Release Date | Jan 20, 2011 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 79 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |
