Tag: politics

The Empire – Hardt and Negri’s Empire (2000)

The Empire – Hardt and Negri’s Empire (2000)

PREFACE Empire is materializing before our very eyes. Over the past several decades, as colonial regimes were overthrown and then precipitously after the Soviet barriers to …

 

Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes (1651)

Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes (1651)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm#link2H_4_0197 CHAPTER XIV. OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURALL LAWES, AND OF CONTRACTS Right Of Nature What The RIGHT OF NATURE, which Writers commonly call Jus Naturale, is …

 

The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)

The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli (1532)

CHAPTER XVIII — CONCERNING THE WAY IN WHICH PRINCES SHOULD KEEP FAITH Every one admits how praiseworthy it is in a prince to keep faith, and …

 

Magna Carta, Feudal Barons (1215)

Magna Carta, Feudal Barons (1215)

The Magna Carta, or Great Charter, is a document created for the purpose of limiting the powers of the monarch and preserving the basic legal …