The Forethought
Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not […]
“The Author and Signers of the Declaration”
It is common to think of the Declaration of Independence as a highly speculative document; but no one can think it so who has read it. It is a strong, […]
Prejudice Not Natural: “The American Colonization Society”
Frederick Douglass, “The American Colonization Society,” The Liberator, June 8, 1849. Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a former slave who became a leading abolitionist. . . . It is because the […]
Second Treatise Chapters 16-19
Chapter 16 Of Conquest 175. THOUGH governments can originally have no other rise than that before mentioned, nor polities be founded on anything but the consent of the people, yet […]
Second Treatise Chapters 13-15
Chapter 13 Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth 149. THOUGH in a constituted commonwealth standing upon its own basis and acting according to its own nature- […]
Second Treatise Chapters 10-12
Chapter 10 Of the Forms of a Commonwealth 132. THE majority having, as has been showed, upon men’s first uniting into society, the whole power of the community naturally […]
Second Treatise Chapters 07-09
Chapter 7 Of Political or Civil Society 77. GOD, having made man such a creature that, in His own judgment, it was not good for him to be alone, […]
Second Treatise Chapters 04-06
Chapter 4 Of Slavery 21. The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority […]
Second Treatise Chapters 01-03
Chapter 1 Of Political Power Sec 1. It having been shown in the foregoing discourse:* Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation […]
Cato’s Letters, Number 38
The world has, from time to time, been led into such a long maze of mistakes by those who gained by deceiving, that whoever would instruct mankind, must begin with […]