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VOLUME I Contents

VOLUME I: Tyranny and Freedom

Table of Contents
THE STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson
The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli
Antigone, Sophocles
CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
Politics, Aristotle
The Second Treatise of Government, John Locke
The Spirit of Laws, Montesquieu
The Federalist Papers, James Madison
A Disquisition on Government, John C. Calhoun
INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY
The Apology of Socrates, Plato
The Crito of Socrates, Plato
The Phaedo of Socrates, Plato
Areopagitica, John Milton
On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
CIVIL RIGHTS AND OPPRESSION
An American Slave, Frederick Douglas
An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs, Chief Joseph
Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
Letter from the Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hanna Arendt
Documents on the Holocaust