Athenian Democracy
Thucydides: The Funeral Oration of Pericles

England
Magna Carta (1215)
The English Bill of Rights (1689)
John Locke: Second Treatise on Government (1690)

The Enlightenment
Voltaire: A Plea for Tolerence and Reason
Baron de Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract (1762)

The American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence (1776)

The French Revolution
Arthur Young: The Plight of The French Peasants (1789)
Arthur Young: Grievences of the Third Estate (1789)
Emmanuel Sieyes: Bourgeois Disdain for the Special Privileges of the Aristocracy (1789)

Events
The Tennis Court Oath (1789)
Journal Account of the Storming of the Bastille 14 July 1789
Report of the British Ambassador on the Events of 14 July 1789
A Royalist Journalist Comments on the King's Acceptance of the July 14 Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 27 August 1789
The Women's March to Versailles 5 October 1789
Maximilien Robespierre: Republic of Virtue (1794)

Reflections of
Thomas Paine: Rights of Man (1791)
Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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