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| Date |
Title |
Author |
| |
Minos |
Plato |
| 380 BC |
Gorgias |
Plato |
| 360 BC |
Laws |
Plato |
| 350 BC |
Politics |
Aristotle |
| 350 BC |
Rhetoric I.13 |
Aristotle |
| 350 BC |
Rhetoric I.15 |
Aristotle |
| 350 BC |
Nicomachean Ethics |
Aristotle |
| 350 BC |
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle; excerpts) |
Aristotle |
| 54-51 BC |
On the Republic (De Republica) |
Cicero |
| 54-51 BC |
Republic (Cicero; excerpt) |
Cicero |
| 51 BC |
On the Laws (De Legibus) |
Cicero |
| 51 BC |
Laws (Cicero; excerpt) |
Cicero |
| 44 BC |
On Duties (De Officiis) |
Cicero |
| c. 90 |
Lycurgus (Plutarch; excerpts) |
Plutarch |
| 160 |
Institutes of Roman Law |
Gaius |
| 161 |
On Civil Law and Natural Law |
Gaius |
| 630 |
Etymologies, or Origins |
Seville, Isidore of |
| 1215 |
Magna Carta |
English Lords |
| 1215 |
Magna Carta |
English Lords |
| 1265-1274 |
Summa Theologiae (Aquinas; excerpts) |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Human Law |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
QUESTION 90: THE ESSENCE OF LAW |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
QUESTION 91: THE VARIOUS KINDS OF LAW |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
QUESTION 92: THE EFFECTS OF LAW |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
QUESTION 93: THE ETERNAL LAW |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
QUESTION 94: THE NATURAL LAW |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 95: Human Law |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 96: The Power of Human Law |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 97: Change in Laws |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 98 (Partial): The Old (Testament's) Law |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 99 (Partial): The Precepts of the Old (Testament's) Law |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
QUESTION 100: THE MORAL PRECEPTS OF THE OLD (TESTAMENT'S) LAW |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 101 (Partial): The Ceremonial Precepts in Themselves |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 104 (Partial): The Judicial Precepts |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 106 (Partial): The Law of the Gospel, Called the New Law, Considered in Itself |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 107 (Partial): The New Law As Compared with the Old |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 108 (Partial): Things That Are Contained in the New Law |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1334-1347 |
Dialogue on the Power of the Pope and the Emperor |
Ockham, William of |
| 1346 |
A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government |
Ockham, William of |
| 1513 |
In What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes |
Machiavelli, Niccolo |
| 1514 |
The Catholic Concordance |
Cusa, Nicholas of |
| 1514-1519 |
The Dictatorial Authority Did Good, and Not Harm, to the Roman Republic |
Machiavelli, Niccolo |
| 1514-1519 |
To Use Fraud in Managing War Is a Glorious Thing, etc. |
Machiavelli, Niccolo |
| 1517-1531 |
Commentary on Matt. 7:12, Whatever you would wish that they do to you (Huldreich Zwingli) |
Zwingli, Huldreich |
| 1517-1560 |
Is There Certitude in the Doctrines of Physics? (Philip Melanchthon) |
Melanchthon, Philip |
| 1517-1560 |
On Law (Philip Melanchthon) |
Melanchthon, Philip |
| 1517-1560 |
What Are the Causes of the Certitude of Doctrine? (Philip Melanchthon) |
Melanchthon, Philip |
| 1521-1526 |
Dialogue on the Regime of Florence (Guicciardini) |
Guicciardini, Francesco |
| 1523 |
Temporal Authority (Martin Luther) |
Luther, Martin |
| 1524 |
Summary of the Teaching of the Renewed Church (Philip Melanchthon) |
Melanchthon, Philip |
| 1525 |
How Christians Should Regard Moses (Martin Luther) |
Luther, Martin |
| 1536 |
Institutes of the Christian Religion (John Calvin) |
Calvin, John |
| 1538 |
Against the Sabbatarians (Martin Luther) |
Luther, Martin |
| 1539 |
Against the Antinomians (Martin Luther) |
Luther, Martin |
| 1579 |
A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants |
Brutus, Junius |
| 1580 |
On Cannibals |
Montaigne, Michel de |
| 1589-1590 |
The Reason of State (Botero) |
Botero, Giovanni |
| 1593 |
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Excerpts) |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 1: The Cause of Writing This General Discourse |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 2: Of That Law Which God Has Set for Himself |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 3: The Law of Natural Agents |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 5: The Law Whereby Man Is Directed to the Imitation of God |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 6: Men’s Knowledge of That Law Which They Are to Observe |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 7: Of Man’s Will |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 8: Of the Way of Finding out Laws by Reason |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 9: The Benefit of Keeping That Law Which Reason Teaches |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 10: How Reason Does Lead Men to Make Human Laws |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 11: Why God Has by Scripture Made Known Supernatural Laws |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1594 |
Chapter 12: Why So Many Natural Laws Are Set Down in Scripture |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1610 |
Dr. Bonham's Case |
Coke, Edward |
| 1612 |
On the Laws |
Suarez, Francisco |
| 1625 |
Concerning the Certainty of Right in General |
Grotius, Hugo |
| 1642 |
The Citizen (De Cive) |
Hobbes, Thomas |
| 1651 |
Leviathan |
Hobbes, Thomas |
| 1672 |
The Law of Nature and Nations (Excerpt) |
Pufendorf, Samuel |
| 1681-1682 |
Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England (Thomas Hobbes) |
Hobbes, Thomas |
| 1682 |
Preface to the Frame of Government of Pennsylvania |
Penn, William |
| 1682 |
Preface to the Frame of Government of Pennsylvania |
Penn, William |
| 1689 |
English Bill of Rights |
British Parliament |
| 1689 |
English Bill of Rights |
British Parliament |
| 1689 |
A Letter Concerning Toleration (Locke; excerpts) |
Locke, John |
| 1690 |
Second Treatise of Government (Locke; excerpt) |
Locke, John |
| 1689, Dec |
First Treatise of Government, "Of Government: Book I" |
Locke, John |
| 1690 |
Second Treatise of Government, "Of Civil Government: Book II" |
Locke, John |
| 1698 |
Discources Concerning Government (Excerpts) |
Sidney, Algernon |
| 1724 |
Cato's Letters |
Gordon, Thomas and John Trenchard |
| 1732 |
The Grumbling Hive |
Mandeville, Bernard |
| 1748 |
The Spirit of Laws (excerpts) |
Montesquieu |
| 1748 |
The Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu; excerpts) |
Montesquieu |
| 1753 |
Of the Laws of England (William Blackstone) |
Blackstone, William |
| 1753 |
Of the Nature of Laws in General (William Blackstone) |
Blackstone, William |
| 1753 |
Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals (Blackstone) |
Blackstone, William |
| 1753 |
Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals (William Blackstone; excerpt) |
Blackstone, William |
| 1758 |
Law of Nations |
Vattel, Emer de |
| 1763 |
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved |
Otis, James |
| 1765-1769 |
Of the Countries Subject to the Laws of England; Of the Parliament (William Blackstone) |
Blackstone, William |
| 1765 |
On the Laws against Popery in Ireland |
Burke, Edmund |
| 1765 |
Resolutions of the Continental Congress |
Continental Congress |
| 1767 |
The Huron |
Voltaire |
| 1774 |
Considerations on the Authority of the British Parliament (James Wilson) |
Wilson, James |
| 1774 |
The Rights of British America |
Jefferson, Thomas |
| 1774 |
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress |
Continental Congress |
| 1776 |
Observations on Civil Liberty, Government, and the War with America (Excerpt) |
Price, Richard |
| 1776 |
Pennsylvania Bill of Rights |
Pennsylvania |
| 1776 |
Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence |
Jefferson, Thomas |
| 1776 |
Common Sense |
Paine, Thomas |
| 1776 |
Virginia Declaration of Rights |
Virginia |
| 1776 |
Virginia Declaration of Rights |
Virginia |
| 1776 |
The Declaration of Independence |
Continental Congress |
| 1776 |
The Declaration of Independence |
Continental Congress |
| 1777 |
Of Civil Liberty |
Hume, David |
| 1777 |
Of the Origin of Government |
Hume, David |
| 1777 |
Of the Original Contract |
Hume, David |
| 1777 |
Some Farther Considerations with Regard to Justice |
Hume, David |
| 1782 |
The Representation of the Commons in the Parliament |
Burke, Edmund |
| 1783 |
New Hampshire Bill of Rights |
New Hampshire |
| 1785 |
Of Reasoning (Thomas Reid) |
Reid, Thomas |
| 1787-1788 |
Constitution of the United States |
United States of America |
| 1787 |
The Anti-Federalist Papers, Brutus No. 2 |
Brutus |
| 1787 |
An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Webster; excerpts) |
Webster, Noah |
| 1776-1788 |
Precursors to the Bill of Rights in the States (excerpts) |
American States, Various |
| 1788, Feb 6 |
Federalist 51 |
Madison, James |
| 1789-1791 |
The Bill of Rights (of the United States) |
United States of America |
| 1789-1791 |
The Bill of Rights |
United States of America |
| 1789, Nov 4 |
A Discourse on the Love of Our Country |
Price, Richard |
| 1790 |
Lectures on Law (James Wilson) |
Wilson, James |
| 1790 |
Lectures on Law (James Wilson) |
Wilson, James |
| 1790 |
Lectures on Law (James Wilson) |
Wilson, James |
| 1790 |
Reflections on the Revolution in France |
Burke, Edmund |
| 1791 |
Rights of Man |
Paine, Thomas |
| 1793 |
Chisholm v. Georgia |
Wilson, James |
| 1793 |
Chisholm v. Georgia |
US Supreme Court |
| 1798, Aug 8 |
Calder v. Bull |
US Supreme Court |
| 1825 |
Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee |
Jefferson, Thomas |
| 1826 |
Thomas Jefferson to Roger Weightman |
Jefferson, Thomas |
| 1832 |
The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (John Austin) |
Austin, John |
| 1839 |
The Jubilee of the Constitution |
Adams, John Quincy |
| 1848 |
Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention |
Seneca Falls Convention |
| 1854, Oct 16 |
Speech at Peoria, IL |
Lincoln, Abraham |
| 1857 |
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (Lincoln; excerpt) |
Lincoln, Abraham |
| 1859, Apr 6 |
To Henry L. Pierce |
Lincoln, Abraham |
| 1859, Sep 16 |
Speech at Columbus, OH |
Lincoln, Abraham |
| 1860, Mar 5 |
Speech at Hartford, CT |
Lincoln, Abraham |
| 1865, Dec 6 |
13th Amendment |
US Congress |
| 1868, Jul 9 |
14th Amendment |
US Congress |
| 1869, Dec |
Hepburn v. Griswold (The Legal Tender Cases; abridged) |
US Supreme Court |
| 1870, Feb 3 |
15th Amendment |
US Congress |
| 1872 |
Memorial Day Address ("The American Code") |
Sumner, William Graham |
| 1872 |
The Slaughterhouse Cases |
US Supreme Court |
| 1884 |
Mind as a Social Factor |
Ward, Lester |
| 1894 |
The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over |
Sumner, William Graham |
| 1897 |
The Path of the Law (Oliver Wendell Holmes) |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (Jr.) |
| 1897, Mar 25 |
The Path of the Law |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (Jr.) |
| 1901 |
Dialogue Between A Savage and A Bachelor of Arts |
Voltaire |
| 1902 |
Purposes and Consequences |
Sumner, William Graham |
| 1905, Apr 17 |
Lochner v. New York |
US Supreme Court |
| 1909-1910 |
Evolution of the Race Problem |
DuBois, W.E.B. |
| 1909 |
The Mores of the Present and the Future |
Sumner, William Graham |
| 1910 |
New Nationalism |
Roosevelt, Theodore |
| 1910 |
The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy |
Dewey, John |
| 1913-1914 |
The New Freedom |
Wilson, Woodrow |
| 1915, May |
Ideals and Doubts |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (Jr.) |
| 1916-1917 |
The American Conception of Liberty |
Goodnow, Frank Johnson |
| 1918, Nov |
Natural Law |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (Jr.) |
| 1919, Mar 3 |
Schenck v. United States |
US Supreme Court |
| 1919, Nov 10 |
Abrams v. United States |
US Supreme Court |
| 1925 |
Pierce v. Society of Sisters (U.S. Supreme Court) |
US Supreme Court |
| 1925, Jun 8 |
Gitlow v. New York |
US Supreme Court |
| 1927, May 2 |
Buck v. Bell |
US Supreme Court |
| 1948 |
Shelley v. Kraemer (U.S. Supreme Court) |
US Supreme Court |
| 1963, Apr 16 |
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
King, Martin Luther (Jr.) |
| 1965 |
The First Principle of Practical Reason: A Commentary on the Summa Theologiae |
Grisez, Germain |
| 1965, Jun 7 |
Griswold v. Connecticut |
US Supreme Court |
| 1967 |
Loving v. Virginia |
US Supreme Court |
| 1985 |
Justice As Fairness: Political, Not Metaphysical (Excerpts) |
Rawls, John |
| 1997 |
The Idea of Public Reason Revisited (excerpts) |
Rawls, John |
| 1998 |
Public Good: The Specifically Political Common Good in Aquinas |
Finnis, John |
| 1998 |
Politics, Religion, and the Common Good: Interview with John Rawls |
Rawls, John |
| 2001 |
Natural Law, God, Religion, and Human Fulfillment |
Grisez, Germain |
| 2008 |
The True Ultimate End of Human Beings: The Kingdom, Not God Alone |
Grisez, Germain |