Did Adam Smith—celebrated hero of free trade—make a big exception for reasons of national defense? Would he support the Jones ...

In this excerpt from Letter IX of John Rankin’s Letters on American Slavery, Rankin argues that slavery is incompatible with ...

During a time when enslaved Americans sought freedom through escape, Elizabeth Freeman challenged her legal status as ...

By Levi D. Slamm. New York Daily Plebeian, 11 April 1844. The Oregon dispute promises to be one of the most vexed subjects that we have had to settle with Great Britain[,] perhaps not less tangled ...

Most of the arts and professions in a state, [says by far the most illustrious philosopher and historian of the present age,] are of such a nature that, while they promote the interests of the society ...

The superior- inferior jural relationship is the governor- governed relationship, or the ruler- ruled relationship—at least in the modern integrated polity in which we speak of “the government.” The ...

Ibn Khaldun was a prominent 14th- century historian famous for being the precursor or even founder, according to some historians, of the social sciences. His contributions to economics highlighted the ...