|
| Date |
Title |
Author |
| 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 |
| 54-51 BC |
On the Republic (De Republica) |
Cicero |
| 54-51 BC |
Republic |
Cicero |
| 51 BC |
On the Laws (De Legibus) |
Cicero |
| 51 BC |
Laws |
Cicero |
| 44 BC |
On Duties (De Officiis) |
Cicero |
| c. 90 |
Lycurgus |
Plutarch |
| 160 |
Institutes of Roman Law |
Gaius |
| 161 |
On Civil Law and Natural Law |
Gaius |
| 630 |
Etymologies, or Origins |
Seville, Isidore of |
| 1215 |
Magna Charta |
Undefined |
| 1215 |
Magna Charta (1215) |
Undefined |
| 1265-1274 |
Question 95. Human Law |
Aquinas, Thomas |
| 1265-1274 AD |
Selections from the Summa Theologiae |
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 (Partial): 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 |
| 1514 |
The Catholic Concordance |
Cusa, Nicholas of |
| AD 1517-1518 |
Discourses on Livy, Book I.34 |
Machiavelli, Niccolo |
| AD 1517 |
Discourses on Livy, Book III.40-42 |
Machiavelli, Niccolo |
| AD 1532 |
The Prince, Chapter 18 |
Machiavelli, Niccolo |
| 1579 |
A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants |
Brutus, Junius |
| 1580 |
On Cannibals |
Montaigne, Michel de |
| AD 1589-1590 |
The Reason of State |
Botero, Giovanni |
| 1593 |
Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity |
Hooker, Richard |
| 1610 |
Dr. Bonham's Case |
Undefined |
| 1612 |
On the Laws |
Undefined |
| 1625 |
The Rights of War and Peace, Preliminary Discourse |
Grotius, Hugo |
| 1642 |
The Citizen (De Cive) |
Hobbes, Thomas |
| 1651 |
Leviathan |
Hobbes, Thomas |
| AD 1681-1682 |
A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England |
Hobbes, Thomas |
| 1682 |
Preface to the Frame of Government |
Undefined |
| 1688 |
The Law of Nature and Nations |
Pufendorf, Samuel |
| 1689 |
A Letter Concerning Toleration |
Locke, John |
| 1689 |
English Bill of Rights |
Undefined |
| 1689 |
English Bill of Rights, 1689 |
Undefined |
| 1689-1690 |
Excerpts from Second Treatise on Government and Letter on Toleration |
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 |
Sidney, Algernon |
| 1724 |
Cato's Letters, or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects |
Undefined |
| 1732 |
The Grumbling Hive |
Mandeville, Bernard |
| 1748 |
Spirit of Laws |
Montesquieu |
| 1748 |
Excerpts from the Spirit of the Laws (Bill of Rights) |
Montesquieu |
| 1753 |
Of the Absolute Rights of Individuals (Commentaries) |
Blackstone, William |
| 1758 |
Law of Nations |
Vattel, Emer de |
| AD 1763 |
Rights of British Colonies Asserted |
Otis, James |
| 1765 |
Of the Nature of Laws in General |
Blackstone, William |
| 1765-1769 |
Commentaries |
Blackstone, William |
| 1765 |
Commentaries |
Blackstone, William |
| 1765-1769 |
Commentaries |
Blackstone, William |
| 1765, Oct 19 |
Resolutions of the Continental Congress, 1765 |
Undefined |
| 1767 |
The Huron |
Voltaire |
| 1774 |
The Rights of British America |
Jefferson, Thomas |
| 1774, Oct 14 |
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774 |
Undefined |
| 1776-1788 |
Early State Documents |
Undefined |
| 1776 |
Observations, &c. |
Price, Richard |
| 1776 |
Pennsylvania Bill of Rights |
Undefined |
| 1776 |
Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence |
Jefferson, Thomas |
| 1776, Jan 10 |
Common Sense |
Paine, Thomas |
| 1776, Jun 12 |
Virginia Bill of Rights |
Undefined |
| 1776, Jun 12 |
Virginia Declaration of Rights |
Undefined |
| 1776, Jul 4 |
Declaration of Independence |
Undefined |
| 1776, Jul 4 |
Declaration of Independence, 1776 |
Undefined |
| 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 |
| 1779 |
Rights of Man |
Paine, Thomas |
| 1784, Jun 2 |
New Hampshire Bill of Rights |
Undefined |
| 1784, Jun 2 |
New Hampshire Bill of Rights |
Undefined |
| 1785 |
Of Reasoning |
Reid, Thomas |
| 1787 |
Anti-Federalist Papers, No. 2 |
Brutus |
| AD 1787-1788 |
Constitution of the United States |
Undefined |
| 1787, Oct 10 |
An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution |
Webster, Noah |
| 1788, Feb 6 |
Federalist 51 |
Madison, James |
| AD 1789-1791 |
Bill of Rights, Constitution of the United States |
Undefined |
| 1789, Mar 4 |
Bill of Rights |
Undefined |
| 1789, Nov 4 |
A Discourse on the Love of Our Country |
Price, Richard |
| 1790-1791 AD |
Lectures on Law |
Wilson, James |
| 1790-1791 |
Lectures on Law |
Wilson, James |
| 1790-1791 |
Lectures on Law |
Wilson, James |
| 1793 |
Chisholm v. Georgia |
Wilson, James |
| 1793 |
Chisholm v. Georgia (Excerpt) |
Undefined |
| 1794 |
Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament |
Wilson, James |
| 1798, Aug 8 |
Calder v. Bull (Excerpts) |
US Supreme Court |
| AD 1825 |
Thomas Jefferson's letter to Henry Lee, 1825 |
Jefferson, Thomas |
| 1826, Jun 24 |
Thomas Jefferson's letter to Roger Weightman, 1826 |
Jefferson, Thomas |
| 1832 |
The Province of Jurisprudence Determined |
Austin, John |
| 1839, Apr 30 |
The Jubilee of the Constitution |
Adams, John Quincy |
| AD 1848 |
Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 |
Undefined |
| 1854, Oct 16 |
Speech at Peoria, IL |
Lincoln, Abraham |
| 1857, Jun 26 |
Lincoln's Speech on the Dred Scott Decision |
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 |
| 1870, Feb 3 |
15th Amendment |
US Congress |
| 1870, Feb 7 |
Hepburn v. Griswold |
US Supreme Court |
| 1872 |
Memorial Day Address ("The American Code") |
Sumner, William Graham |
| 1872 |
The Slaughterhouse Cases |
Undefined |
| 1884 |
Mind as a Social Factor |
Ward, Lester |
| 1894 |
The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over |
Sumner, William Graham |
| 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 |
| AD 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 |
| AD 1913-1914 |
The New Freedom |
Wilson, Woodrow |
| 1915, May |
Ideals and Doubts |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell (Jr.) |
| AD 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, Jun 1 |
Pierce v Society of Sisters |
US Supreme Court |
| 1925, Jun 8 |
Gitlow v. New York |
US Supreme Court |
| 1927, May 2 |
Buck v. Bell |
US Supreme Court |
| 1948, May 3 |
Shelley v. Kraemer |
US Supreme Court |
| 1963, Apr 16 |
Letter from a Birmingham Jail |
King, Martin Luther (Jr.) |
| 1965 |
The First Principle of Practical Reason |
Grisez, Germain |
| 1965, Jun 7 |
Griswold v. Connecticut (Excerpts) |
Undefined |
| 1967, Jun 12 |
Loving v. Virginia |
US Supreme Court |
| 1994, Jul 7 |
The Truth About Citizenship |
Allen, William B. |
| 1998 |
The Specifically Political Common Good in Aquinas |
Finnis, 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 |