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THE

UNCONSTITUTIONALITY

OF

SLAVERY.

BY LYSANDER SPOONER.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY BELA MARSH,

NO. 25 CORNHILL.

1845.


ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by LYSANDER
SPOONER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.


DOW & JACKSON'S ANTI-SLAVERY PRESS.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.--WHAT IS LAW?                              PAGE 5

   "   II.--WRITTEN CONSTITUTIONS,                        18

   "  III.--THE COLONIAL CHARTERS,                        24

   "   IV.--COLONIAL STATUTES,                            36

   "    V.--THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,              42

   "   VI.--THE STATE