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The OLL brings books and ideas together so they can converse with each other and with you. We’ve gathered together collections of texts from historical movements and about big ideas that have changed the world to make it easier to allow our texts to “talk” to each other.
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People & Quotations
Liberty
Richard Overton argues that to submit to the unjust rule by another is to violate one’s right of self ownership (1646)
Origin of Government
James Otis on the right of the people to alter their government (1764)
The State
Robert Filmer thought that the idea of the “consent of the governed” would inevitably lead to anarchy (1680)