This is a collection of the most significant writings in the history of political thought. It is designed to bring together in one convenient location the readings which a typical college course on this topic might require:

1. Aristotle, The Politics
2. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
3. James Madison, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist (Gideon ed.) 1818
4. James Harrington, The Oceana (1656)
5. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
6. David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary (1777)
7. David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
8. Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776)
9. Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay (1795)
10. John Locke, The Two Treatises of Civil Government (1689)
11. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, (1513)
12. Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livius ()
13. Karl Marx, Capital
    
14. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
15. John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869)
16. Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of Laws (1748)
17. Plato, The Dialogues
18. Plato, The Republic
19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1761)
20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality
21. Alexis de Tocqueville, De la Démocratie en Amérique (in French)
    

This list can also be viewed as a Collection in The Library: Classics in the History of Political Thought