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Introduction; Select bibliography; Part I. Natural Law: 1. Burlamaqui:Principles of natural right [and natural law]; Part II. The Civil Order: 2.Rousseau: Discourse on the origin and the foundations of inequality among menand The social contract; 3. Priestley: Essay on the first principles ofgovernment, and on the nature of political, civil and religious liberty; PartIII. The Nation State: 4. Voltaire: Homeland and Man; 5. Herder: Ideas for aphilosophy of the history of mankind and Letters for the advancement ofhumanity; Part IV. Government: 6. Hume: That politics may be reduced to ascience, On the first principles of government, Of the origin of government,and Idea of a perfect commonwealth; 7. Montesquieu: The spirit of the laws;8. Moser: The master and the servant; Part V. Civil Rights: 9. Diderot:Political authority, City, Citizen and Natural law; 10. Condorcet:Reflections on black slavery; 11. Gouges: The rights of women; 12.Wollstonecraft: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures onpolitical and moral subjects; Part VI. International Relations: 13.Saint-Pierre: A project to establish permanent peace in Europe; 14.Barbeyrac: Notes on Grotius' On the law of war and peace; 15. Kant: Perpetualpeace: a philosophical sketch; Part VII. Trade and Economics: 16. Mandeville:The moral [of the Fable of the bees]; 17. Quesnay: The economic tableau; 18.Smith: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations; PartVIII. Crime and Punishment: 19. Beccaria: On crimes and punishment; Part IX.Revolution: 20. Paine: Common sense; 21. Sieyes: What is the third estate?;22. Burke: Reflections on the revolution in France; Index