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Online Library of Liberty The OLL is a curated collection of scholarly works that engage with vital questions of liberty.

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Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Ideas About Liberty Keith E. Whittington, "John C. Calhoun, Constitutionalism, and Slavery" (March 2021)

Welcome to our March 2021 edition of Liberty Matters. This month Keith Whittington has written our lead essay on John C. Calhoun. Calhoun was one of the most formidable political thinkers of his era as well as a former Vice President, a member of the House and Senate, and a Secretary of State and War during the first half of the 19th century. He was also a Southerner and a defender of the insti...

Best of the OLL BOLL 48: J.S. Mill, “Utilitarianism” (1863)

This is part of “The Best of the Online Library of Liberty” which is a collection of some of the most important material in the OLL. Mill’s classic statement of the utilitarian position appeared in 1861 in a series of articles in Fraser’s Magazine between October and December 1861. It then was published as a book in 1863. He built his theory on the foundation laid my his father’s and his intel...

Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power William Cobbett denounces the destruction of liberty during and after the Napoleonic Wars (1817)

The English radical journalist William Cobbett (1763-1835) denounced the crack down on dissent by the British government during the period of difficult economic adjustment which followed the ending of the 25 year war against France. He thought that England, “the cradle of real liberty and just laws”, had just experienced another revolution in government which had restored despotism:

Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (1416)

Introduction: [A Work in Progress] We have selected an appropriate quotation from the works of members of the Scottish Enlightenment to go with the following illustrations from the Très Riches Heures. We have done this because the Très Riches Heures is a marvellous depiction of many aspects of social and economic life in Europe in the early 15th century and it was a feature of the Scottish E...

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