Political Science
From Dictatorship to Democracy
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…
Amendments to the United States Constitution
The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The fo…
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War offers a unique perspective on one of the most pivotal conflicts in American history. Authore…
The American Credo
The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind, published in 1920, is a commentary on US politics, specif…
The Machine
Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the s…
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …
Samuel the Seeker
What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing …
Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society
De Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. "The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1…
Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches
Benito Mussolini was an Italian journalist and politician, the leader of the National Fascist Party. He grew up as a violent bully, and the …
Statesman
Statesman is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that explores the nature of leadership and governance. Through a conversation between Socrati…
Norway and the Union with Sweden
A History of the politics surrounding The Union of Norway with Sweden, from 1814-1905, from the Norwegian perspective - Summary by Æri…
The Irish Land Question
"What I want to impress upon those who may read this paper is this: The Irish land question is not a mere local question; it is a unive…
The English Constitution
The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized for…
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…
Offences Against One's Self
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theor…
Industrial Conspiracies
Industrial Conspiracies is a powerful address by renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow, delivered shortly after his notable acquittal in the McNam…
The English Restoration and Louis XIV
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded th…
Sybil, or the Two Nations
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England"…
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augus…
State of the Union Addresses
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…