Classics Titles

"Why We Don't Shoot Back"

The European Convention on Human Rights
www.hri.org/docs/ECHO50.html

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Introduction to "The Shame of the Cities" by Lincoln Steffens
historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5732

Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
www.opednews.com/thoreau_civil_disobedience.htm

The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
philosophy.eserver.org/Kant/critique-of-pure-reason.txt

The Right to Ignore the State by Herbert Spencer
www.constitution.org/hs/ignore_state.htm

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, 1860
www.constitution.org/jsm/liberty.txt

On Democracy in America by Alexis de Toqueville 1835, 1840
xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/toc_indx.html

The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1762
www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm

The Federalist Papers 1788
www.constitution.org/fed/federa00.htm

The Constitution 1787
www.constitution.org/constit_.htm

Common Sense by Thomas Paine 1776
www.opednews.com/paine_common_sense.htm

Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
www.ushistory.org/Paine/rights/

A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
www.constitution.org/jl/tolerati.htm

Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy circa 1450-1500
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/iroquois.html

The Magna Carta, granted (under great duress) by King John at Runnymede on June 15, 1215
www.constitution.org/eng/magnacar.htm

The Athenian Constitution by Artistotle 350 BCE
www.constitution.org/ari/athen_00.htm

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