{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"Recent Additions - Online Library of Liberty","home_page_url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles","feed_url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/rss/recent_additions.json","description":"Titles recently added to the Online Library of Liberty.\n","language":"en","items":[{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/considerations-on-the-dependencies-of-great-britain-with-observations-on-a-pamphlet-intitled-the-present-state-of-the-nation","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/considerations-on-the-dependencies-of-great-britain-with-observations-on-a-pamphlet-intitled-the-present-state-of-the-nation","title":"Considerations on the dependencies of Great Britain. With  observations on a pamphlet, intitled, The present state of the nation.\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eIn this essay, points are drawn from Irish experience to contend that the necessities claimed for taxing the colonies cannot be well founded, but “it is evident that this is not the harvest-time there for a rapacious minister.” Understanding the implicit claim looming over his own realm, the writer hoped that the English Parliament in “her wisdom” would let Americans remain “dependent in every external relation, but let them experience internal liberty, and a security in their acquisitions.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-03-28T11:37:18-0400","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2824/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/burke-observations-on-a-late-state-of-the-nation","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/burke-observations-on-a-late-state-of-the-nation","title":"Observations on a late state of the nation\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis piece argues against taxing the colonies, not on grounds of mere expediency but a prudential recognition that tensions always exist between lived experience and higher ideals. Not a denial of higher law, Burke critiques those who think they can execute policy even in the most delicate circumstances where principles seem to be in opposition: Parliament’s authority versus colonial rights. Such issues, he noted “can never be moved without shaking the foundations of the best governments.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-03-28T11:19:24-0400","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2823/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-claim-of-the-colonies-to-an-exemption-from-internal-taxes-imposed-by-authority-of-parliament-examined","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-claim-of-the-colonies-to-an-exemption-from-internal-taxes-imposed-by-authority-of-parliament-examined","title":"The Claim of the Colonies to an Exemption from Internal Taxes Imposed by Authority of Parliament, Examined\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis piece defends Parliament’s right to tax by contending that no distinction in law can be maintained between regulation and taxation. Both arise from the same power to determine the disposition of property and precedent gives that power to Parliament alone. But the author recognizes the danger of permitting such authority when the properties of members of Parliament are not subject to the same duties. He argues that revenues from such taxes should only be for expenditures within the colonies.\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-03-28T11:08:44-0400","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2822/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/considerations-on-the-measures-carrying-on-with-respect-to-the-british-colonies-in-north-america","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/considerations-on-the-measures-carrying-on-with-respect-to-the-british-colonies-in-north-america","title":"Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with respect to the British Colonies in North America\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis text makes a constitutional case for local self-government based on the historical precedents of the early dominions of Great Britain, arguing that the jurisdiction of Parliament over internal revenue was not extended to Ireland and was only exercised in Wales, once it achieved actual representation. Citing Locke, Molesworth and Sydney, he laid claim to real Whiggery, by which he did not mean “certain modern Whigs, who seem more fond of the word, than anything belonging to the character.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-02-25T 4:58:23-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2820/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-american-crisis-a-letter","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-american-crisis-a-letter","title":"The American Crisis: A Letter\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThe text uses vituperative rhetoric rare even for other defenders of British policy. The author relies heavily on the analogy of the aggrieved parent and ungrateful child, with the American colonists exemplifying “Ingratitude…the disgrace of human Nature.” The main charge is an unwillingness to bear the expenses of their own defense. He also chastises American duplicity for holding slaves “because of their Complexion.” Such, he claims, “is an American Logic, unknown to the generous Briton.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-02-25T 4:48:10-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2819/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-crisis-or-a-full-defence-of-the-colonies","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-crisis-or-a-full-defence-of-the-colonies","title":"The Crisis or, a Full Defence of the Colonies\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis anonymous pamphlet addresses parliamentary representation and taxation, two preoccupations of the period. This text critiques \u003cem\u003evirtual\u003c/em\u003e representation as new and asks what such a practice could possibly look like? The writer reasoned that Parliament would be obliged to receive all American petitions. Yet, “when the Stamp Bill was in agitation, not a single soul would present a petition from the poor Americans.” To the idea that revenue petitions were disallowed, the writer notes that earlier petitions against the cyder tax were accepted and the right of petitioning was “never once questioned.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-02-20T 1:22:49-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2818/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/schoeck-envy-a-theory-of-social-behaviour","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/schoeck-envy-a-theory-of-social-behaviour","title":"Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis classic study is one of the few books to explore extensively the many facets of envy—“a drive which lies at the core of man’s life as a social being.” Ranging widely over literature, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, Professor Schoeck— a distinguished sociologist and anthropologist—elucidates both the constructive and destructive consequences of envy in social life. Perhaps most important, he demonstrates that not only the impetus toward a totalitarian regime but also the egalitarian impulse in democratic societies are alike in being rooted in envy.\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-02-10T 3:07:49-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2817/schoeckenvy_9780865970649_800h_72.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/a-sermon-preached-before-the-incorporated-society-for-the-propagation-of-the-gospel-in-foreign-parts","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/a-sermon-preached-before-the-incorporated-society-for-the-propagation-of-the-gospel-in-foreign-parts","title":"A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003ePreaching before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in February of 1773, Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, sought to ease tensions between Britain and her colonies by reminding both sides of their common Christianity, their interests in trade, the benefits of science and the principles of good governance, noting that the successes of the Americans in these endeavors “ought to be to us an ever memorable proof, that the true art of government consists in not governing too much.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-01-29T11:22:02-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2815/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/plain-english-a-letter-to-the-king","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/plain-english-a-letter-to-the-king","title":"Plain English: A Letter to the King\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis text is among the most entertaining responses to Samuel Johnson and reveals a powerful link between a sense of natural justice on the one hand and pragmatic common sense on the other. Siding with the Americans in their right to self-government, the author nevertheless excoriated such popular radicals as John Wilkes as false patriots even while lambasting the high-born defenders of imperial administration, noting that “Human statutes, that run counter to the statutes of nature, are absurd.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-01-28T 5:06:01-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2814/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/writings-on-standing-armies","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/writings-on-standing-armies","title":"Writings on Standing Armies\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThe questions of where to locate, in whose hands to place, and how to exercise the state’s powers of deadly military force inform a perennial topic in political theory and coalesce into a recurrent problem in political practice. Liberty Fund presents Writings on Standing Armies, a newly collected, authoritative edition of the most important pamphlets on the “standing armies” controversy of 1697–98. In addition, these writings express a subtext that is of equal and enduring importance: the transforming effects exerted by the prolonged possession of power on individuals and administrations.\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-01-08T12:00:43-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2813/womersley_standingarmies_9780865979123.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-regulations-lately-made-concerning-the-colonies-and-the-taxes-imposed-upon-them-considered","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-regulations-lately-made-concerning-the-colonies-and-the-taxes-imposed-upon-them-considered","title":"The Regulations Lately Made Concerning the Colonies, and the Taxes Imposed upon Them, considered\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis essay is among the most articulate defenses of Parliament’s supremacy over the colonies on matters of trade and taxation. It defended the Stamp Act on both policy and constitutional grounds, advocating a late mercantilist position in favor of a “wise and proper use of the colonies” as being “the principal Object of a British Minister’s care.”   Constitutionally, it argued that all subjects, regardless of location, were virtually represented by Parliament.\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-01-05T 7:59:24-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2812/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/a-letter-to-the-gentlemen-of-the-committee-of-london-merchants-trading-to-north-america","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/a-letter-to-the-gentlemen-of-the-committee-of-london-merchants-trading-to-north-america","title":"A Letter to the Gentlemen Of The Committee of London Merchants, Trading to North America\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis essay inverts the Grenville administration’s arguments, asserting that a true understanding of the Atlantic trade proves that a reduction of income supporting the circulation of goods must reduce commerce overall.  This was in addition to the fact that “as Liberty is the grand Incentive to Industry and Commerce…a Decay of both would ensue the Loss of it.”  The writer then cautions that nullification of colonial charters might well eventuate in the loss of English liberty at home.\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2025-01-03T 1:34:12-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2811/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/a-speech-intended-to-have-been-spoken-on-the-bill-for-altering-the-charters-of-the-colony-of-massachusett-s-bay","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/a-speech-intended-to-have-been-spoken-on-the-bill-for-altering-the-charters-of-the-colony-of-massachusett-s-bay","title":"A speech, intended to have been spoken on the bill for altering the charters of the colony of Massachusett’s Bay\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis text shows a strong familiarity with religious and legal thought, referencing England’s constitutional development, including the relationship of Parliament to Ireland as well as the evils arising from the management of India by the East India company. Grounded in the theological universalism of its day, the essay contended that “That just God, whom we have all so deeply offended, can hardly inflict a severer punishment, than by committing us to the natural consequences of our own conduct.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2024-11-30T10:55:13-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2810/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/american-independence-the-interest-and-glory-of-great-britain","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/american-independence-the-interest-and-glory-of-great-britain","title":"American Independence The Interest and Glory of Great Britain\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis text presents a fusion of natural law, natural rights and contemporary Christian universalism, contending that the American colonies are deserving of their own governance on grounds of “the plain maxims of the law of nature, and the clearest doctrines of Christianity.” The primary end of the work is to show that “The Americans, in common with the whole race of man, have indisputably an inherent right to liberty,” and that the “the rights of sovereignty reside in the people themselves.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2024-11-21T 5:35:40-0500","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2809/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/greene-america-vindicated-from-the-high-charge-of-ingratitude-and-rebellion","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/greene-america-vindicated-from-the-high-charge-of-ingratitude-and-rebellion","title":"America Vindicated from the High Charge of Ingratitude and Rebellion\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThe author of “America Vindicated” presented arguments and word choices very similar to an essay written by the American New York jurist William Smith (1728-1793). This piece presents a strong refutation of Parliamentary Supremacy and virtual representation on the grounds that actual representation must be considered a fundamental part of the British constitution: The text calls for reform by creating a general colonial parliament.\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2024-10-28T 4:45:17-0400","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2808/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-right-of-the-british-legislature-to-tax-the-american-colonies-vindicated-and-the-means-of-asserting-that-right-proposed","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-right-of-the-british-legislature-to-tax-the-american-colonies-vindicated-and-the-means-of-asserting-that-right-proposed","title":"The Right of the British Legislature to Tax the American Colonies Vindicated; and the Means of Asserting that Right Proposed\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis essay makes the case for the unitary nature of the authority of the King-in-Parliament as representative of all domains under British authority, disputing the American claim, with specific reference to Benjamin Franklin, that the colonies were outside “the realm.” Thus, Gray argues, “All the sovereignty the king has over the colonies he has as being sovereign of the British nation.” As such, the colonies were to be considered as subject to the “supreme legislative body” of Parliament.\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2024-10-22T 4:29:16-0400","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2807/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/a-letter-to-g-g","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/a-letter-to-g-g","title":"A Letter to G. G.\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThe essay argues against Parliament’s taxation of America, contending that “subordinate states,” whether Wales or the “palatinates of Chester and Durham” or the colonies, can only be taxed by representatives of their own choosing because “it is just, equal and agreeable to the constitution,” and the colonists have “inherited this franchise of raising money upon themselves from their ancestors.” The text is informed by English and American sources, citing Locke, James Otis, and Benjamin Franklin.\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2024-09-27T 7:25:44-0400","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2806/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-evidence-of-the-common-and-statute-laws-of-the-realm-usage-records-history-with-the-greatest-and-best-authorities-down-to-the-3d-of-george-the-3rd-in-proof-of-the-rights-of-britons-throughout-the-british-empire-addressed-to-the-people","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-evidence-of-the-common-and-statute-laws-of-the-realm-usage-records-history-with-the-greatest-and-best-authorities-down-to-the-3d-of-george-the-3rd-in-proof-of-the-rights-of-britons-throughout-the-british-empire-addressed-to-the-people","title":"The Evidence of the Common and Statute Laws of the Realm; Usage,  Records, History, with the Greatest and Best Authorities Down to the 3d of George the 3rd, in Proof of the Rights of Britons Throughout the British Empire Addressed to the People\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis essay presents one of the strongest responses to the claim of Parliamentary supremacy over the colonies. It is indicative of a robust revival of Old Whig ideas in England on the question of limited government, a revival that began with the Stamp Act in the 1760s and reached a highpoint in 1775. In this text the author draws from a long legal history to assert that all powers of government receive “their binding force from the sufferance, consent, and acquiescence of the people at large.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2024-08-29T 3:03:28-0400","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2805/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-legislative-authority-of-the-british-parliament-with-respect-to-north-america-and-the-privileges-of-the-assemblies-there-briefly-considered","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/the-legislative-authority-of-the-british-parliament-with-respect-to-north-america-and-the-privileges-of-the-assemblies-there-briefly-considered","title":"The Legislative Authority of the British Parliament, with respect to North America, and the Privileges of the Assemblies there briefly considered\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eThis essay defends Parliament’s authority over America “when considered as a collective Body of Colonies,” because only it could consider “the general good of the whole.” While certainly consistent with an idea of virtual representation, the essay’s focus on an intercolonial perspective and the general interests of the empire, marks a distinctive alternative case for the supremacy of Parliament.\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2024-08-21T 3:21:44-0400","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2804/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"},{"id":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/remarks-on-the-review-of-the-controversy-between-great-britain-and-her-colonies","url":"https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/remarks-on-the-review-of-the-controversy-between-great-britain-and-her-colonies","title":"Remarks On The Review of the Controversy Between Great Britain and Her Colonies\n","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eBancroft’s pamphlet is directed against Grenville, Minister of the Treasury. In it, Bancroft takes issue with the suggestion that the American colonists simultaneously claim the privileges of British subjects and reject the authority of Parliament. From there, he outlines the ways in which Parliament, and Grenville in particular, have overstepped their bounds in their policies toward the colonies, and suggests a plan for reconciliation that involves sacrifices from both sides.\u003c/p\u003e\n","date_published":"2024-07-25T 4:53:58-0400","image":"https://oll-resources.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/oll3/store/titles/2803/pamphlet_project_featured_pamphlet.jpg"}]}