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

Spanning the centuries from Hammurabi to Hume, and collecting material on topics from art and economics to law and political theory, the OLL provides you with a rich variety of texts to explore and consider.

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Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power The Women of Seneca Falls and William Blackstone

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and associates (Lucretia Mott, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Frederick Douglass, etc.) argued women should be allowed the right to vote during the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention held at Seneca Falls, New York. They all discussed the basis for the reason they believed that women should have the right to vote. They based it on Blackstone’s Commentaries. Specifically, they ref...

Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Ideas About Liberty Judge Glock, "Albert Venn Dicey and the Immunity of the Administrative State" (December 2020)

Welcome to our December 2020 edition of Liberty Matters. In this month’s forum Judge Glock has written our lead essay on the A.V. Dicey. Dicey was an English legal scholar at Oxford in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who is best known for having popularized the phrase “the rule of law”. Dicey’s most famous work was Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution and was widel...

Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power Ngrams and the Changing Vocabulary of Class Analysis in 19th Century Classical Liberal Thought

Honoré Daumier, "The Army Hierarchy" (1850s) [See higher resolution image] What are Ngrams? According to the Wikipedia article on The Google Ngram Viewer: The Google Ngram Viewer or Google Books Ngram Viewer is an online search engine that charts frequencies of any set of comma-delimited search strings using a yearly count of n-grams found in sources prin...

Best of the OLL BOLL 19: Israel Kirzner, “Entrepreneurial Activity and the General Market Process” (1963)

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. This essay is by the Austrian economist Israel Kirzner who is best known for his pioneering work on the role of the entrepreneur. In this section from a chapter Kirzner provides an excellent summary of the 4 different ways in which entrepreneurs can take advantage...

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