The 95 Theses
The Communist Manifesto
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen - The Lockean statement of rights made in the early years of the French Revolution
English Bill of Rights - The 1689 document that established limitations on the English Monarchy and the supremacy of the English Parliament (In some ways similar to our Bill of Rights in the sense that it limited government; UNLIKE our Bill of Rights in that it was not focused on the rights of individuals)
Leviathan - work by Thomas Hobbes viewed as the first of the major Enlightenment documents. Hobbes asserts that man is fundamentally selfish, and that without government our lives are inevitably "nasty, brutish, and short". Because we recognize this, he says, we enter into the social contract, that is, we consent to follow agreed upon rules to make everyone's life more livable. Hobbes rejects Divine Right theory, but also states that strong, absolutist government is necessary to keep order.
Magna Carta
Napoleonic Code - The Law code devised by Napoleon and spread throughout Europe as a result of Napoleon's conquests. It provided equality before the law for all (male) citizens, eliminated privileges of nobility and clergy, promoted education and religious toleration
On the Origin of Species
The Prince
The Republic
The Tennis Court Oath - Document signed by the self-declared National Assembly (basically representatives of the Third Estate) stating that the group would meet until they had written a new constitution for France. The opening of the French Revolution
Treaty of Tordesillas
Two Treatises on Government - Locke's best known/most oft quoted work laying out the principles of constitutionalism, liberalism, republicanism, and including many of the ideas Jefferson laid out a century later in the Declaration of Independence
Utopia
The Communist Manifesto
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen - The Lockean statement of rights made in the early years of the French Revolution
English Bill of Rights - The 1689 document that established limitations on the English Monarchy and the supremacy of the English Parliament (In some ways similar to our Bill of Rights in the sense that it limited government; UNLIKE our Bill of Rights in that it was not focused on the rights of individuals)
Leviathan - work by Thomas Hobbes viewed as the first of the major Enlightenment documents. Hobbes asserts that man is fundamentally selfish, and that without government our lives are inevitably "nasty, brutish, and short". Because we recognize this, he says, we enter into the social contract, that is, we consent to follow agreed upon rules to make everyone's life more livable. Hobbes rejects Divine Right theory, but also states that strong, absolutist government is necessary to keep order.
Magna Carta
Napoleonic Code - The Law code devised by Napoleon and spread throughout Europe as a result of Napoleon's conquests. It provided equality before the law for all (male) citizens, eliminated privileges of nobility and clergy, promoted education and religious toleration
On the Origin of Species
The Prince
The Republic
The Tennis Court Oath - Document signed by the self-declared National Assembly (basically representatives of the Third Estate) stating that the group would meet until they had written a new constitution for France. The opening of the French Revolution
Treaty of Tordesillas
Two Treatises on Government - Locke's best known/most oft quoted work laying out the principles of constitutionalism, liberalism, republicanism, and including many of the ideas Jefferson laid out a century later in the Declaration of Independence
Utopia