Liberty: 575 books

Cover of Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society
by Samuel Pufendorf
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

Samuel Pufendorf’s Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion (published in Latin in 1687) is a major work on the separation of politics and religion. Written in response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by the French king Louis XIV, Pufendorf contests the right of the sovereign to control...
Cover of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
by John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015

Available for the first time in a modern and readable edition! Preceding The Federalist by several years, this first volume of John Adams' A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a profound work of political and governmental theory. What prompted...
Cover of Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century
by A. V. Dicey
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007

This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during the nineteenth century and its impact on legislation. Dicey’s lectures were accurate as a reflection of the anxieties felt by turn-of-the-century Benthamite...
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Democracy in America

In Two Volumes

by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont spent nine months in the U.S. studying American prisons on behalf of the French government. They investigated not just the prison system but indeed every aspect of American public and private life—the political, economic, religious, cultural,...
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Southern Living Off the Eaten Path: On the Road Again

More Unforgettable Foods and Characters from the South's Back Roads and Byways

by Morgan Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

Hidden Southern restaurants and their best recipes await in this, the third helping of Off the Eaten Path. Morgan Murphy takes his hungry readers back on the road with an unforgettable trip across the South, covering 15,000 miles, 60+ all-new restaurants, 150 recipes, in 18 states. From the best fried...
Cover of Freedom and the Law
by Bruno Leoni
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1991

According to Bruno Leoni, the greatest obstacle to rule of law in our time is the problem of overlegislation. In modern democratic societies, legislative bodies increasingly usurp functions that were, and should be, exercised by individuals or groups rather than government. Bruno Leoni (1913–1967)...
Cover of Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish Enlightenment
by Gershom Carmichael
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2002

Gershom Carmichael (1672–1729) was the first professor of moral philosophy at the University of Glasgow, preceding Hutcheson, Smith, and Reid. He defended a strong theory of rights and drew attention to Grotius, Pufendorf, and Locke. James Moore is Professor of Political Science at Concordia...
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The Excellencie of a Free-State

Or, The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth

by Marchamont Nedham
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012

This edition brings back into print, after two and a half centuries, the pioneering work of English republicanism, Marchamont Nedham’s The Excellencie of a Free-State, which was written in the wake of the execution of King Charles I. First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written...
Cover of Institutes of Divine Jurisprudence, with Selections from Foundations of the Law of Nature and Nations
by Christian Thomasius
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011

Christian Thomasius’s natural jurisprudence is essential to understanding the origins of the Enlightenment in Germany, where his importance was comparable to that of John Locke’s in England. First published in 1688, Thomasius’s Institutiones jurisprudentiae divinae (Institutes of Divine...
Cover of In Defense of the Constitution
by George W. Carey
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1997

In Defense of the Constitution argues that modern disciples of Progressivism who subtly distort fundamental principles of the Constitution are determined to centralize political control in Washington, D.C., to achieve their goal of an egalitarian national society. It is in their distrust of self-government...
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"One Holy Local Church"?

The Ghettoization of Protestantism

by Bojidar Marinov
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017

The concept of “local church membership” hardly existed in the church before the 17th century Baptists, except for certain heretical sects and Anabaptists. Yes, the concept of “church membership” has existed from the very beginning. The concept of “local congregation” has existed from...
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All of Grace

An Earnest Word for Those Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ

by Charles H Spurgeon
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017

Spurgeon's classic evangelistic appeal written like a personal letter to the reader. This completely modernized and updated version retains Spurgeon's warmth and compassion. Simple, earnest, down-to-earth, and profound.
Cover of Astrology Zone The Year Ahead 2019
by Susan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018

In the world of astrology, there is only one person you should trust to read your 2019 horoscope: Susan Miller, the internationally respected founder of Astrology Zone®. Susan's monthly reports and readings, published on her website and via her app, "Daily Horoscope Astrology Zone + More by...
Cover of Astrology Zone The Year Ahead 2019
by Susan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019

In the world of astrology, there is only one person you should trust to read your 2019 horoscope: Susan Miller, the internationally respected founder of Astrology Zone®. Susan's monthly reports and readings, published on her website and via her app, "Daily Horoscope Astrology Zone + More by...
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