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:

• in the Forum: Timeline on the American Founding
• in the Forum: Key Documents
• in the Forum: The Founders' Constitution
• in the Library: Topic on the American Revolution and Constitution
• in the Library: Debate on Loyalists and Patriots before the American Revolution

• Plato
• John Milton
• William Shakespeare
• Titus Livius (Livy)
• Samuel von Pufendorf
• John Locke
• Algernon Sidney
• David Hume
• Hugo Grotius
• Thomas Hobbes
• Plutarch
• Marcus Tullius Cicero
• John Robinson
• Saint Paul
• Publius Cornelius Tacitus
• Thomas Gordon
• John Trenchard
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Voltaire
• Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
• Richard Price
• Sir Edward Coke
• James Harrington
• Guillaume-Thomas-François, abbé Raynal