Pantarchy is a social theory proposed by

Stephen Pearl Andrews Stephen Pearl Andrews (March 22, 1812 – May 21, 1886) was an American libertarian socialist, individualist anarchist, linguist, political philosopher, outspoken Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist and author of several books on the ...

in the 19th century. Andrews was considered the "American rival of

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," because of his work on an all-encompassing philosophy of

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, and his political proposals had similar scope, combining elements of the individualist anarchism of

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, whose works Andrews had edited, with a strong belief in natural hierarchy. :The plan of this party proposes a NEW SPIRITUAL GOVERNMENT FOR THE WORLD, called THE PANTARCHY, which includes a NEW CHURCH and a NEW STATE, with, to use his own language, " all other subordinate institutions, educational, informational, &c., which are universal in their scope and nature, and which can be devised and established as subservient to the collective wants of mankind."Daniel Dorchester. ''Christianity in the United States''. Cincinnati: Phillips and Hunt, 1888. 834. Andrews scheme of pantarchy was discussed in a series of "Weekly Bulletins" in the pages of '' Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly''. The American Section 12 of the

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adopted some of Andrews' proposals.

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