Political Science
Political Theory
Documents
- Code of Hammurabi (1752 BCE)
- Bible: 1 Samuel (after 960 BCE)
- Aristotle: Constitution of Sparta (650 BCE)
- Mandate of Heaven (ca. 475–221 BCE)
- Funeral Oration of Pericles (431 BCE)
- Kautilya: Arthashastra (ca. 400 BCE–300 CE)
- Plato: “Of Wealth, Justice, Moderation, and Their Opposites” (ca. 380 BCE)
- Plato: “Allegory of the Cave” (380 BCE)
- Aristotle: “The Nature, End, and Origin of the States” (ca. 335–323 BCE)
- Aristotle: Constitution of Carthage (ca. 320s BCE)
- Aristotle: Athenian Constitution (320 BCE)
- Canon of Filial Piety (ca. 300–239 BCE)
- Han Feizi (ca. 230 BCE)
- Polybius: The Histories (ca. 150 BCE)
- Marcus Aurelius: Meditations (ca. 170-180)
- Augustine of Hippo: City of God (413–426)
- Nizam al-Mulk: Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings (1091)
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae (1266–1273)
- Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince (1513)
- James I: Speech on the Divine Right of Kings (1609)
- Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (1651)
- John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690)
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract (1762)
- Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
- Thomas Paine: Common Sense (1776)
- Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Thomas Paine: The Crisis, No. 1 (1776)
- Thomas Paine: The Crisis, No. 4 (1777)
- James Madison: Federalist 14 (1787)
- John Jay's Federalist 2-5 and 64 (1787)
- James Madison: Federalist 51 (1788)
- Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (1835)
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto (1848)
- John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (1859)
- Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents (1930)
- Benito Mussolini: “The Doctrine of Fascism” (1932)
- Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist (1970)
