Best of the OLL

About this Collection

Helpful introductions and carefully edited selections bring the OLL into focus. With recommendations for further reading and useful explanatory notes, these Best of the OLL selections are an ideal way to begin exploring the ideas of liberty.

Members:

• BOLL 41: “Magna Carta” (The Great Charter) (1215) (Editor (OLL))
• BOLL 42: Sir Edward Coke, “Petition of Right” (1628) (Sir Edward Coke)
• BOLL 43: “The Habeas Corpus Act” (1679) (Editor (OLL))
• BOLL 44: “The English Bill of Rights” (1689) (Editor (OLL))
• BOLL 45 [George Mason], “The Virginia Bill of Rights” (June, 1776) (George Mason)
• BOLL 46: David Hume, “The Progress of English Liberty” (1761) (David Hume)
• BOLL 47: Wilhelm von Humboldt, “Of the Individual Man” (1792) (Wilhelm von Humboldt)
• BOLL 48: J.S. Mill, “Utilitarianism” (1863) (John Stuart Mill)
• BOLL 49: “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen” (1789) (Georg Jellinek)
• BOLL 50: Condorcet and Olympe de Gouges, “The Rights of Women” (1790-91) (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet)
• BOLL 51: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “On Liberty” (1810-22) (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• BOLL 52: Condorcet, “Tenth Epoch. Future Progress of Mankind” (1794) (Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet)
• BOLL 53: Gustave de Molinari, “Of the Liberty of Government” (1849) (Gustave de Molinari)
• BOLL 54: James Harrington, “The Commonwealth of Oceana” (1656) (James Harrington)
• BOLL 55: Herbert Spencer, “Political Retrospect and Prospect” (1882) (Herbert Spencer)
• BOLL 56: Hugo Grotius, “The Preliminary Discourse Concerning the Certainty of Right” (1625) (Hugo Grotius)
• BOLL 57: J.S. Mill, “The Spirit of the Age” (1831) (John Stuart Mill)
• BOLL 58: Léon Faucher,“Property I” (1852) (Léon Faucher)
• BOLL 59: Wolowski and Levasseur, “Property II” (1864) (Louis Wolowski)
• BOLL 60: Thomas Gordon, “On the Nature of Power” (1721) (Thomas Gordon)
• BOLL 61: John Trenchard, “On the Nature of Political Parties” (1721) (John Trenchard)
• BOLL 62: J. S. Mill, “On Representative Government” (1861) (John Stuart Mill)
• BOLL 63: John Milton, “For the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing” (1664) (John Milton)
• BOLL 64: James Mill, “Liberty of the Press” (1825) (James Mill)
• BOLL 65: Destutt de Tracy, “Of Society” (1817) (Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy)