Political Science
212 books
Political Science
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Stephen Leacock - Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice
This lengthy political essay by noted Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock was written while he was professor of political economy at McGill University. He argues for a middle ground between capitalism and pure...
2 hours 23 minutes
*Non-fiction
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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2
This is the second LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 14 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1766 and...
4 hours 32 minutes
*Non-fiction
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Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the...
7 hours 58 minutes
Political Science
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John Locke - Two Treatises of Civil Government
The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is an extended attack on Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha , which argued for...
11 hours 4 minutes
*Non-fiction
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Jeremy Bentham - Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation , a classic text in modern philosophy and jurisprudence, first published in 1789, focuses on the principle of utility and how this view of...
13 hours 56 minutes
Law
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Fabian Franklin - What Prohibition Has Done to America
In What Prohibition Has Done to America , Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beginning in 1920, this Amendment prohibited the sale and...
2 hours 21 minutes
