Pamphlets and Treatises

John Wise, A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches (1717)

Benjamin Franklin, On the Freedom of the Press, 1737

Thomas Paine’s 1776 popular and influential pamphlet arguing for American independence.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1734)

Alexander Pope, Of False Taste (1731)

Alexander Pope, Of the Uses of Riches (1732)

Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (1728)

Cesare Beccaria, An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (1764)

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751)

David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779)

David Hume, Political Discourses (1752)

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of the Inequality of Men (1754)

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of the Inequality of Men(1754)

Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)

John Woolman, Considerations on the True Harmony of Mankind (1774)

Montesquieu, Reflections on the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Roman Empire (1734)

Montesquieu, Reflections on the Causes of the Grandeur and Declension of the Roman Empire (1734)

Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1771)

Phillis Wheatley, To His Excellency George Washington (1776)

Richard Price, Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty (1776)

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