Publications

The Declaration of Paris confirms the principles that blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective and states that neither enemy goods on neutral vessels, nor neutral goods on enemy vessels, s...chevron_right

"The Communist Manifesto" contains Marx and Engels' theories about the nature of society and politics. In their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggl...chevron_right

The essay by Karl Marx criticizes two studies by Bruno Bauer on the attempt by Jews to achieve political emancipation in Prussia. Marx uses Bauer's essay as an occasion for his own analysis of liberal...chevron_right

The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to appl...chevron_right

"On War" is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830. It contains a wealth of historical examples us...chevron_right

"Elements of the Philosophy of Right" is an attempt to systematize ethical theory, natural right, the philosophy of law, political theory and the sociology of the modern state into the framework of He...chevron_right

In this short essay, Kant completes his political theory and philosophy of history, considering the prospects for peace among nations and addressing questions that remain central to our thoughts about...chevron_right

"Reflections on the Revolution in France" is one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution, which was, at the time of writing, in its infancy. Burke argued that the French R...chevron_right

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles and essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution. "The Federalist" remains a primary source for interpreting the US Constituti...chevron_right

The series of anti-federalist writing which most nearly paralleled and confronted "The Federalist" was a series of sixteen essays published in the New York Journal from October, 1787, through April, 1...chevron_right

The series of anti-federalist writing which most nearly paralleled and confronted "The Federalist" was a series of sixteen essays published in the New York Journal from October, 1787, through April, 1...chevron_right

This essay is Rousseau's critique of the Abbé Saint-Pierre’s ideas on the prospects of a European Federation to reduce the likelihood of war.chevron_right

The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain wer...chevron_right

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title, The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher...chevron_right

This essay by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau concerns the design of a new constitution for the the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Among other issues, Rousseau addresses his belief that small state...chevron_right