Chapter V

MONTESQUIEU.
L’Esprit des Lois (1748).

J.J. ROUSSEAU.
Du Contrat Social (1762). See ed. by Vaughan, 1918.

JOHN BROWN.
Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757).

ADAM FERGUSON.
Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767).

WILLIAM BLACKSTONE.
Commentaries (1765-9).

JEREMY BENTHAM.
A Fragment on Government (1776). Ed. F.C. Montague, 1891.

J. DE LOLME.
The Constitution of England (1775).

ROBERT WALLACE.
Various Prospects (1761).

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY.
Essay on the First Principles of Government (1768).

RICHARD PRICE.
Observations on Civil Liberty (1776).
Additional Observations (1777).

WILLIAM OGILVIE.
The Right of Property in Land (1781). Ed. Macdonald, 1891.

JOSIAH TUCKER.
Treatise on Civil Government (1781).

SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Taxation No Tyranny (1775).

M. BEER.
History of British Socialism (1919).

JAMES BOSWELL.
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791).