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Summa Theologiae (Aquinas; excerpts)
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13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
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A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants
A Discourse on the Love of Our Country
A Letter Concerning Toleration (Locke; excerpts)
A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government
Abrams v. United States
Against the Antinomians (Martin Luther)
Against the Sabbatarians (Martin Luther)
An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Webster; excerpts)
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Buck v. Bell
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Calder v. Bull
Cato's Letters
Chapter 10: How Reason Does Lead Men to Make Human Laws
Chapter 11: Why God Has by Scripture Made Known Supernatural Laws
Chapter 12: Why So Many Natural Laws Are Set Down in Scripture
Chapter 1: The Cause of Writing This General Discourse
Chapter 2: Of That Law Which God Has Set for Himself
Chapter 3: The Law of Natural Agents
Chapter 5: The Law Whereby Man Is Directed to the Imitation of God
Chapter 6: Men’s Knowledge of That Law Which They Are to Observe
Chapter 7: Of Man’s Will
Chapter 8: Of the Way of Finding out Laws by Reason
Chapter 9: The Benefit of Keeping That Law Which Reason Teaches
Chisholm v. Georgia
Chisholm v. Georgia
Commentary on Matt. 7:12, Whatever you would wish that they do to you (Huldreich Zwingli)
Common Sense
Concerning the Certainty of Right in General
Considerations on the Authority of the British Parliament (James Wilson)
Constitution of the United States
D
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention
Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England (Thomas Hobbes)
Dialogue Between A Savage and A Bachelor of Arts
Dialogue on the Power of the Pope and the Emperor
Dialogue on the Regime of Florence (Guicciardini)
Discources Concerning Government (Excerpts)
Dr. Bonham's Case
E
English Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
Etymologies, or Origins
Evolution of the Race Problem
F
Federalist 51
First Treatise of Government, "Of Government: Book I"
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Gitlow v. New York
Gorgias
Griswold v. Connecticut
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Hepburn v. Griswold (The Legal Tender Cases; abridged)
How Christians Should Regard Moses (Martin Luther)
Human Law
I
Ideals and Doubts
In What Mode Faith Should Be Kept by Princes
Institutes of Roman Law
Institutes of the Christian Religion (John Calvin)
Is There Certitude in the Doctrines of Physics? (Philip Melanchthon)
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Justice As Fairness: Political, Not Metaphysical (Excerpts)
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Law of Nations
Laws
Laws (Cicero; excerpt)
Lectures on Law (James Wilson)
Lectures on Law (James Wilson)
Lectures on Law (James Wilson)
Letter from a Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Leviathan
Lochner v. New York
Loving v. Virginia
Lycurgus (Plutarch; excerpts)
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Magna Carta
Magna Carta
Memorial Day Address ("The American Code")
Mind as a Social Factor
Minos
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Natural Law
Natural Law, God, Religion, and Human Fulfillment
New Hampshire Bill of Rights
New Nationalism
Nicomachean Ethics
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle; excerpts)
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Observations on Civil Liberty, Government, and the War with America (Excerpt)
Of Civil Liberty
Of Reasoning (Thomas Reid)
Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals (Blackstone)
Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals (William Blackstone; excerpt)
Of the Countries Subject to the Laws of England; Of the Parliament (William Blackstone)
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (Excerpts)
Of the Laws of England (William Blackstone)
Of the Nature of Laws in General (William Blackstone)
Of the Origin of Government
Of the Original Contract
On Cannibals
On Civil Law and Natural Law
On Duties (De Officiis)
On Law (Philip Melanchthon)
On the Laws
On the Laws (De Legibus)
On the Laws against Popery in Ireland
On the Republic (De Republica)
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Pennsylvania Bill of Rights
Pierce v. Society of Sisters (U.S. Supreme Court)
Politics
Politics, Religion, and the Common Good: Interview with John Rawls
Precursors to the Bill of Rights in the States (excerpts)
Preface to the Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
Preface to the Frame of Government of Pennsylvania
Public Good: The Specifically Political Common Good in Aquinas
Purposes and Consequences
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QUESTION 100: THE MORAL PRECEPTS OF THE OLD (TESTAMENT'S) LAW
Question 101 (Partial): The Ceremonial Precepts in Themselves
Question 104 (Partial): The Judicial Precepts
Question 106 (Partial): The Law of the Gospel, Called the New Law, Considered in Itself
Question 107 (Partial): The New Law As Compared with the Old
Question 108 (Partial): Things That Are Contained in the New Law
QUESTION 90: THE ESSENCE OF LAW
QUESTION 91: THE VARIOUS KINDS OF LAW
QUESTION 92: THE EFFECTS OF LAW
QUESTION 93: THE ETERNAL LAW
QUESTION 94: THE NATURAL LAW
Question 95: Human Law
Question 96: The Power of Human Law
Question 97: Change in Laws
Question 98 (Partial): The Old (Testament's) Law
Question 99 (Partial): The Precepts of the Old (Testament's) Law
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
Republic (Cicero; excerpt)
Resolutions of the Continental Congress
Rhetoric I.13
Rhetoric I.15
Rights of Man
Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence
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Schenck v. United States
Second Treatise of Government (Locke; excerpt)
Second Treatise of Government, "Of Civil Government: Book II"
Shelley v. Kraemer (U.S. Supreme Court)
Some Farther Considerations with Regard to Justice
Speech at Columbus, OH
Speech at Hartford, CT
Speech at Peoria, IL
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (Lincoln; excerpt)
Summary of the Teaching of the Renewed Church (Philip Melanchthon)
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Temporal Authority (Martin Luther)
The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over
The American Conception of Liberty
The Anti-Federalist Papers, Brutus No. 2
The Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights (of the United States)
The Catholic Concordance
The Citizen (De Cive)
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence
The Dictatorial Authority Did Good, and Not Harm, to the Roman Republic
The First Principle of Practical Reason: A Commentary on the Summa Theologiae
The Grumbling Hive
The Huron
The Idea of Public Reason Revisited (excerpts)
The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy
The Jubilee of the Constitution
The Law of Nature and Nations (Excerpt)
The Mores of the Present and the Future
The New Freedom
The Path of the Law
The Path of the Law (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (John Austin)
The Reason of State (Botero)
The Representation of the Commons in the Parliament
The Rights of British America
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
The Slaughterhouse Cases
The Spirit of Laws (excerpts)
The Spirit of the Laws (Montesquieu; excerpts)
The True Ultimate End of Human Beings: The Kingdom, Not God Alone
Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson to Roger Weightman
To Henry L. Pierce
To Use Fraud in Managing War Is a Glorious Thing, etc.
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Virginia Declaration of Rights
Virginia Declaration of Rights
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What Are the Causes of the Certitude of Doctrine? (Philip Melanchthon)
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    • Aristotle
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    • Aquinas
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    • Protestant Reformers
    • Richard Hooker
  • Early Modern
    • Thomas Hobbes
    • John Locke
    • Law of Nations
    • Montesquieu
    • Common Law and the Law of Reason
    • Radical Whigs and Natural Rights
  • American Constitutionalism
    • Colonial Roots
    • The Declaration of Independence
    • The Influence of the Scottish Enlightenment
    • Founding Era Constitution-Making
    • Modern Constitutionalism
    • The Bill of Rights
    • Abraham Lincoln
    • Post-Civil War Amendments
    • U.S. Supreme Court
    • American Civil Rights Movements
  • Contemporary
    • New Natural Law Theory
  • Critics
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    • Enlightenment Critics
    • Social Darwinism
    • American Progressivism
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes
    • Legal Positivism
    • John Rawls