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