State

Works to read

• The Republic and The Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero, c. 54-51 BC
• The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives by Plutarch, c. 100 CE
• The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington, 1656
• Essays on Education in a Republic by Benjamin Rush, 1786-1798
• Citizenship in a Republic ("The Man in the Arena") by Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
• Notes on the State of Virginia, Selected Letters, and The Jefferson Bible by Thomas Jefferson, 1785-1820
• Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises, 1920
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette by Supreme Court of the United States, 1943
• Catiline's War and The Jugurthine War by Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), c. 42-40 BC
• A Theologico-Political Treatise by Baruch Spinoza, 1670
• Obergefell v. Hodges by Supreme Court of the United States, 2015
• Areopagitica by John Milton, 1644 · Great Books

Passages

From the texts

• The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life."

  — Aristotle, Politics

• The State is not a mere accident of human history, a mere device for the protection of life and property; it responds to a fundamental need of human nature, and is rooted in the character of the individuals who compose it.

  — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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