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Locke’s foundational defense of natural rights, consent, property, resistance, and limited government.

Thomas Paine’s defense of popular sovereignty, natural rights, and political reform in the age of revolution.

A socialist utopian romance imagining work, beauty, fellowship, and daily life after industrial capitalism.

A hugely influential utopian novel of future Boston, nationalized industry, equality, and social order.

Kropotkin’s argument that cooperation, not only competition, shapes animals, humans, and society.

A landmark argument for women’s equality, legal reform, liberty, education, and marriage rights.

Locke’s classic argument for religious toleration, civil government, conscience, churches, and liberty.

Milton’s famous prose defense of unlicensed printing, free inquiry, truth, conscience, and public debate.

Mill’s political treatise on representation, liberty, participation, institutions, voting, and civic character.

Thoreau’s compact argument for conscience against unjust law, grounded in the moral responsibility of the individual.

A landmark argument for women’s education, reason, equality, and civic dignity.

A foundational work of political philosophy on authority, fear, covenant, and sovereignty.

A political novel about power, machine politics, ambition, and New York public life.

A public-domain study of tipping, money habits, service culture, and everyday social pressure.

A public-domain classic of ideal society, law, property, politics, and satire, presented in a clean BooksWhale reading edition.

A classic argument for individual freedom, open debate, and limits on social authority.

Foundational essays on constitutional design, federal power, liberty, and republican government.

Paine’s defense of revolution, natural rights, representative government, and social reform.

A revolutionary pamphlet arguing plainly for independence, republican government, and political self-determination.

A central text of liberal political thought on rights, consent, property, resistance, and legitimate rule.