greykit.essays — Sources Of Liberty

• 1729 [sources-of-liberty] A Modest Proposal

  Swift's savage satire proposing that the Irish poor sell their children as food — the most famous satirical essay in English.

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• 1689 [sources-of-liberty] Second Treatise of Government

  Locke's foundational argument for government by consent, natural rights, and the right of revolution — the deepest source of the American founding.

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