The Library of Original Sources

Book excerpt: CONTENTS:The Supremacy of ParliamentThe Habeas Corpus ActThe Bill of RightsPolitical PhilosophersHobbesThe Social ContractThe Causes and Generation of a CommonwealthJohn LockeThe Beginning of Political SocietiesThe Ends of Political SocietiesThe Dissolution of GovernmentMontesquieuThe Separation of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial PowersRousseauThe Contract SocialThe Social CompactThe SovereignThe Civil StateSovereignty Is InalienableSovereignty Is IndivisibleEnglish Colonial ViewsRobert CliveOn His Conduct in IndiaChatham and GrenvilleChatham on the Right to Tax AmericaGrenvilles ReplyLord Chatham ContinuesMansfieldIn Favor of the Right to Tax AmericaBurke On Conciliation with AmericaAdam SmithThe Colonies and Free TradeThe American RevolutionJames OtisJohn Adams's Account of the Speech by Otis on the Writs of AssistanceThe SpeechOtis's Rights of the British ColoniesSamuel AdamsExtant Fragments of His Instructions to the Boston DelegatesPatrick HenryOn the Virginia ResolutionsFranklinExamination on the Stamp ActJohn DickinsonAgainst the Suspension of the New York Legislature 199Against Direct TaxationThomas PaineCommon SenseThomas JeffersonA Summary View of the Rights of British AmericaThe Passing of the DeclarationJohn AdamsOn the Declaration of IndependenceThe Forming of the Constitution of the United StatesDebates in the Federal Convention of 1787The French RevolutionThe Condition of the French People (by Arthur Young, Traveler in France, 1787-1789)TurgotOn Accepting OfficeSieyesWhat Is the Third Estate?Cahier of the Grievances of the Third EstateAbolishing of Feudal System, Aug. 11, 1789MirabeauThe Condition of Affairs, Oct. 15, 1789Origin of the Jacobin Club