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Collection: Founding Fathers’ Library

Donald Lutz drew up a list of the most frequently cited authors by members of the Founding Generation of the American Republic. A full list can be found here and there is a bibliographical essay on this topic by Forrest McDonald

For additional information about the American Founding see the following:

27 People in this Group:

sort name   name   birth ↑ death  
Plato Plato 429 BC 347 BC
Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 BC 43 BC
Livy Titus Livius (Livy) 59 BC 17 AD
Paul Saint Saint Paul 10 AD 67 AD
Plutarch Plutarch 46 AD 125 AD
Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus 56 AD 120 AD
Machiavelli Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 1527
Coke Sir Edward Coke 1552 1634
Bacon Sir Francis Bacon 1561 1626
Shakespeare William Shakespeare 1564 1616
Robinson John John Robinson 1575 1625
Grotius Hugo Grotius 1583 1645
Hobbes Thomas Hobbes 1588 1679
Milton John Milton 1608 1674
Harrington James Harrington 1611 1677
Sidney Algernon Sidney 1622 1683
Pufendorf Samuel von Pufendorf 1632 1694
Locke John Locke 1632 1704
Trenchard John Trenchard 1662 1723
Montesquieu Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu 1689 1755
Gordon Thomas Thomas Gordon 1692 1750
Voltaire Voltaire 1694 1778
Hume David Hume 1711 1776
Rousseau Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 1778
Raynal Guillaume-Thomas-François, abbé Raynal 1713 1796
Vattel Emer de Vattel 1714 1767
Price Richard Price 1723 1791