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( 4 0 ) I nib i d . ,... p. 1 1 2 • He yw00dar g uedthat lega I
tender laws were "class currency."
(41)ln ibid., p. 130.
(42)Lysander Spooner, "Constitutinnl Law, Relative
t 0 C red it, Cur r e n c y and Bn nkin g ," The Co lIec ted Wo r k s
o fLy san d e r S p 0 0 n e r, Vo. V ( We s ton ,Mas s .: Mand S
Pres s, 19 71 ), P• 24.
(43)Ibid., p. 27.
(44)See ibid. Also see Carl Watner, "The Works
of Lysande r Spooner," address before .the ed i tor s of the
Liberty Book,n.d., pp. 2-3.
(45)Lysander Spooner, "The Unconstitutionality of
the Laws of Congress Prohibiting Pri vateMail s , fiThe
Collected Works of Lysander Spooner Vol. I (Weston,
Mass: M andS Press, 1971), p. 7.
(46)Lysander Spooner, "Letter to Grover
Cleveland," The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner,
Vol. I (Weston, Mass: M and S Press, 1971), p. 42.
(47)Benjamin Tucker, "An Unwarranted Question,"
Ins tea d 0 f aBo 0 k (N e w Yo r k: A r no Pres sand The New
York Times, 1972), p. 208.
(48}Greene's description of the operations of the
mutual bank can be found in his "The Mutual Bank," in
American Radical Thought, ed.: H. J. Silverman
(Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 197.0), pp. 138-41.
A 1 s 0 see Mar tin, p p. 1 3 1 - 32 • On e can ea s i I Y see the
simi lar i ties between Proudhon's mutual bank and that
espoused by Greene. The Proudhonian influence on
Greene is clearly documented in Wiliam Reichert,
Partisans of Freedom (BoWling Green: Bowling Green
State University, Popular Press, 1976), pp. 100-16.
For a good summary of Proudhon's banking ideas and a
critique of mutual banking see Herbert Osgood,
"Scientific Anarchism," Political Science Quarterly
(Ma r c h 1889 ), Pp. 15- 18, 34- 36 •
( 49 )Ma r tin, p • 1 7 6 •
( 50 ) I bid., p p. 2 1 2 -13; a 1so see Mur ra y Ro t hba r d ,
11 The S po 0 n e r. - T u c k e r Doc t r i n e: An Econom i s t 's View, 11
Egalitarianism As A Revolt Against Nature, and Other
Essays (Washington, D.C.: Libertarian Press, 1974), p.
133; and Osgood, pp. 34-36.
(51)ln Martin, p. 138.
(52)ln Schuster, p. 105.
(53)Andrews, p. 7.
(54)Ibid., p. 145.
(55)Ibid.
( 56 )Ma r tin, pp. 144- 48 .
(57)Ibid., p. 153.
(58) Lysander Spooner, "The Law of Intellectual
PropertY,TI Collected Works of Lysander Spooner, Vol.
217