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A Compromise No One Loved

A Night in the Concord Jail

A Quarter Million and One Speech

A Quarter Million on the Mall

A Seat, a Boycott, a Name

A Thousand Governments in One Basin

A Throne on Loan

Adam Smith Against the Mercantile System

An Essay Nobody Read Until It Mattered

Barred From the Ballot, Voted Back Anyway

Before the Unions Were Legal

Before The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith Wrote a Book About Sympathy

Bounding the Vote

Chartism: Britain's Working-Class Reform Movement

Constitutional Monarchy: How Crown and Constitution Divide Power

Counsel, Not Command

Decalage: The Distance Senghor Named Inside Negritude

Direct Democracy: Citizens As Legislators

Federalism: Dividing Sovereignty Between Levels of Government

Four Chosen, None After

From Najaf Lectures to Constitutional Doctrine

Ghanaian Independence: The First Domino of Decolonisation

Hobbes's Nominalism and the Quarrels of His Final Years

How a Movement Survived Its Founder

How Fascism Redefined the Purpose of Government

How Five Principles Became a Loyalty Test

Invented Three Times Over

Juche: The Doctrine That Outsourced Its Own Self-Reliance

Law as the Only Reliable Ruler

Marbury v. Madison and the Power the Constitution Never Named

Mercantilism and the Birth of Economic Nationalism

Nowhere to Appeal

One Ballot, Ranked

Pan-Africanism: Uniting a Continent and Its Diaspora

Pancasila's Balancing Act: Neither Secular Nor Theocratic

Parliamentary Democracy: Government Answerable To The Legislature

Peronism's Third Position: Neither Capitalism Nor Communism

Power the Centre Can Take Back

Seventeen Days Apart

Social Democracy: The Bet That Reform Could Outrun Revolution

The Abolitionist Movement: Ending the Slave Trade and Slavery

The American Revolution: Independence Fought and Won

The Anti-Apartheid Movement: Isolating a Regime

The Arab Spring: A Wave of Uprisings

The Captured Ship Behind Grotius's Doctrine of the Open Sea

The Case About an Undelivered Commission

The Contradiction Inside Marx's Theory of History, and G.A. Cohen's Fix for It

The Cost of Staying

The Decade Before the Arrest

The Disputed Debt to Thoreau

The Dissertation Abbas Has Spent Four Decades Explaining

The Doctrine That Outlived Its Dynasty

The First Mass Movement of Working People

The French Revolution: From Fiscal Crisis to Republic

The Glorious Revolution: Parliament Over the Crown

The Highest Respect for Law

The Highest Respect for Law

The Indian Independence Movement: A Decades-Long Campaign

The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Iran's First Parliament

The Lawyer Who Became a Mahatma

The Leader Is the Doctrine: Reading Juche Through Its Successors

The Levellers: Popular Sovereignty in the English Civil War

The Line That Doesn't Move

The Millet System: Governing a Multi-Religious Empire

The Minimal State: What Libertarianism Keeps and Rejects From Liberalism

The No-Confidence Vote Germany Redesigned After Weimar

The Non-Aligned Movement: Standing Outside the Cold War Blocs

The One-Party State: Rule Without Competition

The People Come First

The Power the Constitution Never Named

The Presidential System: Separating Executive From Legislature

The Russian Revolution: Two Revolutions in One Year

The Safety Net Metaphor, and What It Hides

The Spanish American Wars of Independence: Ending Colonial Rule

The Statute Allende Had to Sign to Become President

The System That Wasn't There Yet

The Tanzimat: Reforming the Ottoman Empire

The Tribute Added Late

The UN Charter Was Written Against the League That Failed

The Unitary State: One Center, Many Delegates