Liberty: 575 books
Democracy, Liberty, and Property
The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
In one volume, Democracy, Liberty, and Property provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s. With topics as relevant today as they were then, this collection of essential primary sources sheds light on many of the enduring issues of liberty. Emphasizing the connection...
by James Fitzjames Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1993
Students of political theory will welcome the return to print of this brilliant defense of ordered liberty. Impugning John Stuart Mill’s famous treatise, On Liberty, Stephen criticized Mill for turning abstract doctrines of the French Revolution into “the creed of a religion.”
Only the...
Exploring the Bounds of Liberty
Political Writings of Colonial British America from the Glorious Revolution to the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Exploring the Bounds of Liberty presents a rich and extensive selection of the political literature produced in and about colonial British America during the century before the American Revolution. Most colonial political pamphlets and broadsides were printed in London, but even in the mid-seventeenth...
To Secure the Blessings of Liberty
Selected Writings of Gouverneur Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Liberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris’s writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to scholars of American and French history as the volume contains many writings that have never before been published.
Morris served as Deputy Superintendent...
by Liberty Forrest
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
We’ve all heard those occasional stories of people who have recovered from untreatable or incurable conditions. There are those who were told they would never walk again - but through sheer determination, they did it. There are those who were riddled with malignant tumours and given a death sentence,...
Liberty in Mexico
Writings on Liberalism from the Early Republican Period to the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Liberty in Mexico presents sixty-four essays and writings on liberty and liberalism, from the early republican period to the late twentieth century, from a variety of authors. The texts in this edition will refute commonly held notions that the liberal project in Latin America had no indigenous roots....
by William Penn
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2002
William Penn (1644–1718) played a crucial role in the articulation of religious liberty as a philosophical and political value during the second half of the seventeenth century and as a core element of the classical liberal tradition in general. Penn was not only one of the most vocal spokesmen...
Liberty and Order
The First American Party Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2004
Liberty and Order is an ambitious anthology of primary source writings: letters, circulars, debate transcriptions, House proceedings, and newspaper articles that document the years during which America’s Founding generation divided over the sort of country the United States was to become.
With...
Liberty's Pimp in Congress
Silencing America's Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Is it OK with you that D.C. politicians silence your free speech to make their job easier?
Then they complain about it:
From the 114th session, when Democrats were the minority party, a committee report said:
The Rules Committee is the instrument Republicans used to break both Speakers’...
Democracy and Liberty
In Two Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1981
“When democracy turns, as it often does, into a corrupt plutocracy, both national decadence and social revolution are being prepared.” So wrote the Irish-born historian W. E. H. Lecky (1838–1903) in this devastating assault on mass democracy.
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Union and Liberty
The Political Philosophy of John C. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 1992
Calhoun’s most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the first time since the 1850s. These writings address such issues as states’ rights and nullification, slavery, the growth of the Federal judicial power,...
Encyclopedic Liberty
Political Articles in the Dictionary of Diderot and D’Alembert
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Often described as the culmination of the French Enlightenment, the Encyclopédie was collected not only to serve as a comprehensive reference work, but to “change the way men think” about every aspect of the human and natural worlds. In his celebrated “Preliminary Discourse” to the compilation,...
by Joseph Addison
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
First produced in 1713, Cato: A Tragedy inspired generations toward a pursuit of liberty. Liberty Fund’s new edition of Cato: A Tragedy, and Selected Essays brings together Addison’s dramatic masterpiece along with a selection of his essays that develop key themes in the play.
Christine...
The Lamp of Experience
Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 1998
In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century examines the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the founding fathers.
As Jack P. Greene has observed, “[The Whig] conception saw the past as a continual struggle between liberty...