The Pacificus–Helvidius Debates of 1793–1794 matched Hamilton and Madison in the first chapter of an enduring discussion about the proper roles of the executive and legislative branches in the conduct of American foreign policy. Ignited by President Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation of 1793, the debate addressed whether Washington had the authority to declare America neutral, despite an early alliance treaty with France. Hamilton argued that Washington’s actions were constitutional and that friction between the two branches was an unavoidable, but not harmful, consequence of the separation of powers. Madison countered that Washington’s proclamation would introduce “new principles and new constructions” into the Constitution. While the Pacificus-Helvidius debates did not resolve this ongoing constitutional controversy, they did define the grounds upon which this question was to be examined, to this very day.

The sequel to his more famous book on *Ancient Law” in which Maine examines kinship, tribal society, early legal remedies and sovereignty.

This work is a summary statement of the nature of economic thought by one of the leading theorists of the English classical school in the mid-19th century.

A brief and succinct defense of free trade.

Spencer attempts a synthesis of his thought and expounds the first systematic theory of evolution in this work.

Condorcet’s essay is an early defence of the right of women to particpate in politcs. It was written during the first years of the French Revolution.

A collection of papers which explores methodoogy, econometrics, social cost, monopoly theory, the supply of money, interest theory, and macroeconomics. It contains papers by: Ludwig M. Lachmann, “An Austrian Stocktaking: Unsettled Questions and Tentative Answers” John B. Egger, “The Austrian Method” Mario J. Rizzo, “Praxeology and Econometrics: A Critique of Positivist Economics” Israel M. Kirzner, “Economics and Error” S.C. Littlechild, “The Problem of Social Cost” D.T. Armentano, “A Critique of Neoclassical and Austrian Monopoly Theory” Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr., “Spontaneous Order and the Coordination of Economic Activities” Murray N. Rothbard, “Austrian Definitions of the Supply of Money” Lawrence S. Moss, “The Emergence of Interest in a Pure Exchange Economy: Notes on a Theorem Attributed to Ludwig von Mises” Roger W. Garrison, “Austrian Macroeconomics: A Diagrammatical Exposition” Louis M. Spadaro, “Toward a Program of Research and Development for Austrian Economics”

A short essay in which the great English observer of American politics evaluates the predictions of Hamilton and Tocqueville about the course of American democracy.

This volume is a collection of essays which examines some of the central themes and ideologies central to the formation of the United States including Edmund Burke’s theories on property rights and government, the influence of Jamaica on the American colonies, the relations between religious and legal understandings of the concept of liberty, the economic understanding of the Founders, the conflicting viewpoints between moral sense theory and the idea of natural rights in the founding period, the divisions in thought among the revolutionaries regarding the nature of liberty and the manner in which liberty was to be preserved, and the disparity in Madison’s political thought from the 1780s to the 1790s.

A condensed version (in verse) of two Indian classics of religious poetry.