On Liberty and Other Essays (Oxford World's Classics)8 reviews John Stuart Mill Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 The great defender of individual liberty + Liberty for all + Triumph of the individual + Liberal, Utilitarian and First Feminist. Essential reading.             Democracy in America Alexis De Tocqueville A Mentor Book, 1963             1776654 reviews David McCullough Simon & Schuster, 2006 The Struggle of an Infant Nation + Popular History That Reads Like Suspense + A very intelligent account of 1776 + Remarkable Historical Account             Kant: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)2 reviews Immanuel Kant Cambridge University Press, 1991 Best collection I've seen in English + The ideas in this book are revolutionary!! This is the best affordable paperback collection of Kant's essays on politics and the philosophy of history. You get Perpetual Peace, Idea for a Universal History, Contest of the Faculties, The End of all Things, Theory and Practice, What is Enlightenment and several other essays. Hans Reiss' ...             The Social Contract (Penguin Classics)26 reviews Jean-Jacques Rousseau Penguin Classics, 1968 Still a Timely Study on Liberty + A civil society, dream on my friend... Immanuel Kant had one portrait hanging in his house in Konigsberg. The portrait was of Rousseau. What an honor, to be memorialized while alive by THE leading figure of the enlightenment! Rousseau never coined the term 'noble savage'. This is a popular misunderstanding and outright lie. He was ...             American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation88 reviews Jon Meacham Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007 Excellent narrative on history of public religion in the USA + Brief Summary...Intersting but Ultimately Not a Keeper + I wish more people would read or listen to this book + American Gospel             Selected Essays (Oxford World's Classics)5 reviews David Hume Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Fine selection of essays by a great man + My son loved this + Move Over Montaigne + Excellent View of Hume + Highly entertaining corpus of essays             Two Treatises of Government14 reviews John Locke Cambridge University Press, 1988 Most Representative Thinker in Anglo-American Tradition + LOGICALLY INCORRECT, BUT VERY INSPIRED + The Second Treatise and the American Founding + Essay: The Illusion of Supreme Legislative Power             The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America33 reviews Cato Institute, 2000 DOI & Constitution, No More No Less + There's a reason this book has a complete rating of five stars... + Essential to Have Around + Great explanations of the Bill of Rights! + essential American founding documents!             The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)36 reviews Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, ... Signet Classics, 2003 Another vote for must read + Required reading + The Federalist Papers + For all fredom lovers + Why we are who we are.             The Articles of Confederation Applewood Books(MA), 2006 The first governing document of America in a handsome gift edition. Part of Applewood's Little Books of American Wisdom series. The Articles of Confederation were passed by the Continental Congress in 1781, but were not ratified by the states until 1781. This first governing document put the new country in good stead, but it had some shortcomings, including the creation of a weak central ...             The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Signet Classics)15 reviews Signet Classics, 2003 The Origin of our Bill of Rights + The Anti-Federalist Papers + The Anti-Federalist Papers + quick shipping; great product!!! + long over due             The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution39 reviews David O. Stewart Simon & Schuster, 2007 Like Making Sausage + How Personalities Affected the Constitution Twain once said that there are two things you don't want to see made - sausages and laws. This is certainly true for the making of our Constitution and Mr. Stewart takes the reader into the kitchen to see how it was made. This is a riveting account of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 where ...             Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)21 reviews Thomas Paine Signet Classics, 2003 Freedom and Rights of man + classic American + The Man Who Started it All + Looking to the past for insight             Politics (Dover Thrift Editions)24 reviews Aristotle Dover Publications, 2000 If You Don't Want To Live In A State, You Are Either A God Or A Beast + If You Don't Want To Live In A State, You Are Either A God Or A Beast + Another famous ancient Greek philosopher. + Politics Defined             Democracy in America Alexis De Tocqueville A Mentor Book, 1963             Politics (Dover Thrift Editions)24 reviews Aristotle Dover Publications, 2000 If You Don't Want To Live In A State, You Are Either A God Or A Beast + If You Don't Want To Live In A State, You Are Either A God Or A Beast + Another famous ancient Greek philosopher. + Politics Defined             The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America33 reviews Cato Institute, 2000 DOI & Constitution, No More No Less + There's a reason this book has a complete rating of five stars... + Essential to Have Around + Great explanations of the Bill of Rights! + essential American founding documents!             Kant: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)2 reviews Immanuel Kant Cambridge University Press, 1991 Best collection I've seen in English + The ideas in this book are revolutionary!! This is the best affordable paperback collection of Kant's essays on politics and the philosophy of history. You get Perpetual Peace, Idea for a Universal History, Contest of the Faculties, The End of all Things, Theory and Practice, What is Enlightenment and several other essays. Hans Reiss' ...             Selected Essays (Oxford World's Classics)5 reviews David Hume Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 Fine selection of essays by a great man + My son loved this + Move Over Montaigne + Excellent View of Hume + Highly entertaining corpus of essays