Politics
Bill of Rights
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United States Government and Unit
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.
Leviathan (Books I and II)
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Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…
What's Wrong With the World
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possibl…
Wage-Labour and Capital
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Karl Marx
Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central the…
Reflections on War and Death
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Sigmund Freud
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether…
Democracy in America Vol. I
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Alexis De Tocqueville
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful …
Kitab Adab al-Dunya w'al-Din (The Ethics of Religion and of this World)
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Abu al-Hasan Ali Ibn Muhammad Ibn Habib al-Mawardi
Al-Mawardi (Alboacen) was one of the famous Islamic authors and jurists. He was a well-known man in the “Abbassid” empire—a mature thinker w…
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
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Friedrich Engels
The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …
Two Treatises of Civil Government
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John Locke
The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is a…
A Modern Utopia
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H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the …
Anticipations
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H. G. Wells
Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine.…
The Soul of Man
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Oscar Wilde
“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.”Published originally …
The Prince (Version 2)
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Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavel…
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
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Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels schrieben ihr Manifest im Dezember 1847, als Leitfaden fuer die grundsaetzlichen Prinzipien und Praktiken des…
The Slavery of Our Times
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Leo Tolstoy
This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so mu…
Utopia (Burnet translation)
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Thomas More
This book is all about the fictional country called Utopia. It is a country with an ‘ideal’ form of communism, in which everything really do…
The Anti-Federalist Papers
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Patrick Henry
During the period of debate over the ratification of the Constitution, numerous independent local speeches and articles were published all a…
The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
This book is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt’s published commentaries and public addresses on the general theme of the requirements for i…
The Greek View of Life
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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…
Progress and Poverty
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Henry George
What I have done in this book, if I have correctly solved the great problem I have sought to investigate, is, to unite the truth perceived b…