I am pleased to announce that Lysander Spooner's Unconstitutionality of Slavery has been prominently cited and discussed - as it pertains to Spooner's views about the application of the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to actions of local and state governments - in today's decision in McDonald v. Chicago!!
Spooner's work was briefly cited by Justice Scalia in 2008 in Heller v. District of Columbia (although Scalia incorrectly stated the page numbers from which he was quoting), but the opinion of the Court in today's opinion in McDonald v. Chicago (written by Justice Alito), and the separate opinion of Justice Thomas make much more substantive references.
Spooner would be thrilled!
Watch this space for my future comments about the Spooner cites - and how they relate to Spooner's broader views (which I discuss here)
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