Category Archives: Political Science

Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Women

Author(s): Margaret Fuller Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with...

The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans)

Author(s): Xenophon The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by...

The Citizen’s Almanac – Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the United States

Author(s): United States of America New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet...

On the Laws

Author(s): Marcus Tullius Cicero On the Laws (Latin: De Legibus) was written shortly after Cicero’s...

Politics

Author(s): Aristotle The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most...

The Soul of Man

Author(s): Oscar Wilde “(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is...

The English Constitution

Author(s): Walter Bagehot The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal...

The Insurrection in Dublin

Author(s): James Stephens The Easter Rising was a rebellion staged in Ireland in Easter Week,...

What’s Wrong With the World

Author(s): G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.”...

The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America

Author(s): D. W. Griffith The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America was D.W....

Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01

Author(s): Edmund Burke Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin,...

What Shall We Do?

Author(s): Leo Tolstoy A vivid description of wealth and poverty in Russia in Tolstoy’s day,...

Woman and Labour

Author(s): Olive Schreiner I should like to say to the men and women of the...

Third Class in Indian Railways

Author(s): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and...

Laws

Author(s): Plato (Πλάτων) Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato’s last and longest dialogue. It is generally...

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1975 – 1977)

Author(s): Gerald Ford The State of the Union address is a speech or report presented...

The Facts of Reconstruction

Author(s): John R. Lynch After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been...

Technocracy

Author(s): William Henry Smyth The word technocracy refers to a system of government by technical...

Twenty Years of the Republic 1885-1905

Author(s): Harry Thurston Peck Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had...

The Theory of Social Revolutions

Author(s): Brooks Adams Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism....

Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

Author(s): John Ruskin John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as...

Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt

Author(s): Theodore Roosevelt This book is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt’s published commentaries and public...

The Jefferson-Lemen Compact

Author(s): Willard C. MacNaul Willard McNaul’s book chronicles from original sources the agreement made between...

United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 3

Author(s): Various This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of...

The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

Author(s): Francis Fisher Browne This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln’s life: Indiana, Illinois,...

United Nations Agreements

Author(s): United Nations The Charter of the United Nations signed at San Francisco on 26...

The Pentecost of Calamity

Author(s): Owen Wister Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in...

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1877 – 1884)

Author(s): Rutherford B. HayesChester A. Arthur The State of the Union address is a speech...

The Servile State

Author(s): Hilaire Belloc A clear boundary exists between the servile and the non-servile condition of...

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

Author(s): Jane Addams Much of the material in the following pages has appeared in current...