Political Science
Essays on Political Economy
Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…
Elementary catechism on the Constitution of the United States
Elementary Catechism on the Constitution of The United States was written in 1826 by Arthur J. Stansbury (1781-1865) a New York Presbyterian…
Charles Sumner
In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …
Imperialism and World Politics
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
TikTok
This is a collection of reports on TikTok written for the Congressional Research Service with the aim of informing U.S. legislative debate. …
An Old Master and Other Political Essays
This is a collection of five essays published by Woodrow Wilson in 1893, while he was Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University (s…
The Christian Commonwealth
John Eliot, a North American missionary, advocates for post-civil-war England to adopt a representative democracy, using the Mosaic Law as a…
The Democracy of the Constitution
Henry Cabot Lodge was a popular American Senator from Massachusetts. He did not only make a name for himself as a politician, but also as an…
Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences
Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …
Why Armenia Should Be Free
Here is a trenchant argument for the Allied Supreme Council, established at the close of World War One, to recognize and defend the independ…
Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities based on its invest…
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…
An American Politician
In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and th…
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,…
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,…
Woman and Labour
I should like to say to the men and women of the generations which will come after us—“You will look back at us with astonishment! You will …
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness
It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conc…
A Woman and the War
It is not without serious reflection that I have collected these thoughts in war time to offer in book form to those who may care to read an…
The Congressman’s Wife
A season in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Briggs highlights a stormy period in American politics and the capriciousness of a woman. - Summary by…