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Online Texts for Program Readings: Politics & Society Segment

This guide provides links to full-text resources and audio resources available for program readings.

Online Texts

This is a guide with links to full-text/audio resources of program works. Below is a list of databases with full-text sources and audio recordings. For help accessing these resources, please contact Catherine Hines, Library Director at 410-626-2550 or catherine.hines@sjc.edu.

Digital Loeb Classical Library Early Modern Texts Naxos Spoken Word Library Open Library (Internet Archive) Project Gutenberg

Aristotle

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Nicomachean Ethics
Politics

Douglass, Frederick / Lincoln, Abraham / Supreme Court Cases

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Douglass, Frederick - “The Constitution of the U.S.: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?
Lincoln on the Dred Scot Decision
Supreme Court Cases

(also available in the bookstore)

Locke, John

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Second Treatise of Government

Complete Two Treatises of Government Texts

Second Treatise of Government-Only Texts

Madison, Hamilton, Jay

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Federalist Papers

The Federalist

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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On the Genealogy of Morals

Plutarch

                                                 Plutarch - Wikipedia 

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Lives

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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Summa Theologica

Complete Summa Theologiae Texts

"First Part of the Second Part"-Only Texts

"Second Part of the Second Part"-Only Texts

Articles of Confederation / Declaration of Independence / Federalist / U. S. Constitution

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Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
The Federalist
U.S. Constitution 

U.S. Constitution (without Amendments)

U.S. Constitution (with Complete Amendments)

Complete Amendments to the U.S. Constitution

Amendments 1-10 (Bill of Rights)

Amendments 11-27

Hobbes, Thomas

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Leviathan

Machiavelli, Niccolò

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Discourses on Livy
The Prince

Marx, Karl

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German Ideology

Plato

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Republic

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

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Discourse on the Origins of Inequality 

Tocqueville, Alexis de

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Democracy in America