PART I: Skepticism about Power

I Samuel 8
The Bible

Of the Origin and Design of Government
Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Federalist no. 10
James Madison

What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Objections to Government Interference
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

More of the Same
H. L. Mencken, American Mercury

The Humanitarian with the Guillotine
Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine

The State
Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty

Self-Interest and the Constitution
Richard Epstein, Journal of Legal Education

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