United States -- Politics and government -- 1845-1849
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- Presidency of James K. Polk
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Address of the Whigs of the Legislature of Massachusetts to the Whigs of the Union (Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1848), by Whig Party (Mass.) (page images at Google)- Speech of Aylett Buckner, of Kentucky, on the Propriety of Organizing Governments for the Territories, Delivered in the House of Representatives, Feb. 17, 1849 (Washington: Towers, 1849), by Aylett Buckner
- Address of the Delegates of the Native American National Convention, Assembled at Philadelphia, July 4th, 1845, to the Citizens of the United States, by Native American Party (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency, 1845 to 1849 (4 volumes (Chicago Historical Society Collections v6-9); Chicago: Pub. for the Society by A. C. McClurg and Co., 1910), by James K. Polk, ed. by Milo Milton Quaife, contrib. by Andrew C. McLaughlin (page images at HathiTrust)
- Principles and Measures of True Democracy: The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention, Held at Cincinnati, June 11, 1845, to the People of the United States; Also, the Letter of Elihu Burritt to the Convention (Cincinnati: Printed at the Gazette office, 1845), by Ohio) Southern and Western Liberty Convention (1845 : Cincinnati (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty Convention, to the People of the United States (Cincinnati: Printed at the Gazette office, 1845), by Ohio) Southern and Western Liberty Convention (1845 : Cincinnati (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Oliver Dyer's Phonographic Report of the Proceedings of the National Free Soil Convention at Buffalo, N. Y., August 9th and 10th, 1848, by Free Soil Party National Convention, contrib. by Oliver Dyer
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Filed under: United States -- Politics and government- American Government (Houston: OpenStax, c2016), by Glen S. Krutz, ed. by Sylvie Waskiewicz (PDF with commentary at openstax.org)
- Outline of U.S. Government (revised 2013), by United States Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs, ed. by Rosalie Targonski (Epub at state.gov)
- American Government and Politics in the Information Age (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by David L. Paletz, Diana Marie Owen, and Timothy E. Cook (PDF at saylor.org)
- About America: How the United States is Governed (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, c2004), by Paul A. Arnold (PDF at state.gov)
- Democracy in Brief (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), by Howard Cincotta (PDF files at america.gov)
- Understanding Democracy: A Hip Pocket Guide (free online edition; original edition published 2006), by John J. Patrick (HTML and PDF with commentary at annenbergclassroom.org)
- Winning the New Civil War: Recapturing America's Values (1991), by Robert P. Dugan (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public (originally published 2002; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Homeland Fascism: Corporatist Government in the New American Century (2016), by Herman Schwendinger and Julia R. Schwendinger (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Keynoting the Conservative Decade: A Speech (Heritage Lectures #23; Washington: Heritage Foundation, 1983), by Ronald Reagan (PDF at amazonaws.com)
- Policy and Administration (University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1949), by Paul H. Appleby (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Disquisition on Government (with a new introduction by Levy; New York: Poli Sci Classics, 1947), by John C. Calhoun, contrib. by Naphtaly Levy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Credo de Liberdade: A Constituicao dos Estados Unidos e Outros Documentos Historicos (in Portuguese; Washington: U. S. Dept. of State Central Translating Office, 1945), by United States, contrib. by Abraham Lincoln (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Disquisition on Government (reprint of the 1853 edition; New York: P. Smith, 1943), by John C. Calhoun, ed. by Richard K. Crallé (page images at HathiTrust)
- Twilight of the American State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Pierre Schlag (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Western Democrat (New York: W. Funk, Inc., 1940), by Arthur F. Mullen (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Federalist: A Classic on Federalism and Free Government (originally published 1960; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gottfried Dietze (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left (London: Pluto Press, c2018), by Mark A. Lause (Epub at OAPEN)
- Talks on Sound Government (Wichita, KS: Defender Publishers, c1938), by Gerald B. Winrod (page images at HathiTrust)
- Capital, State, Empire: The New American Way of Digital Warfare (London: University of Westminster Press, 2017), by Scott Timcke (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
- Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Erik J. Engstrom
- A Preface to Politics (Ann Arbor Paperbacks edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962), by Walter Lippmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- Drifting Sands of Party Politics (second printing, with a memoir of the author; New York and London: The Century Co., c1931), by Oscar W. Underwood, contrib. by Claude G. Bowers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress, and a Plan to Stop It (New York and Boston: Twelve, c2011), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF at lessig.org)
- Constitution of the United States: Founding of the Bourgeois Republic (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1959), by Arnold Petersen, contrib. by Daniel De Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
- Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c2009), by Allan J. McDonald, contrib. by James R. Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Institutions and Their Preservation (New York, c1927), by William W. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Worker Looks at Government (New York: International Publishers, c1927), by Arthur W. Calhoun (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Citizenship (New York: Macmillan, 1914), by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
- American Citizenship (New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard
- American Democracy vs. Racism, Communism, by John A. Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Institutions and Their Influence (1851 edition, 528 pages), by Alexis de Tocqueville, contrib. by John C. Spencer (page images at MOA)
- American Institutions and Their Influence (1851 edition, 474 pages), by Alexis de Tocqueville, contrib. by John C. Spencer (page images at MOA)
- American Institutions and Their Influence (1851 edition), by Alexis de Tocqueville, contrib. by John C. Spencer (Gutenberg text)
- American Political Ideas Viewed From the Standpoint of Universal History, by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
- The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny, by Orestes Augustus Brownson
- Causes and Consequences (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898), by John Jay Chapman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Causes and Consequences (revised edition; New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909), by John Jay Chapman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Civil Government in the United States, Considered With Some Reference to its Origins, by John Fiske (Gutenberg text)
- Community Civics and Rural Life, by Arthur William Dunn (Gutenberg text)
- A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents (11 volumes, 1902 and 1904), ed. by James D. Richardson (Gutenberg texts)
- A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Prepared Under the Direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, of the House and Senate, Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-Second Congress of the United States (With Additions and Encyclopedic Index by Private Enterprise) (20 volumes, covering up to 1922; New York: Bureau of National Literature, c1897-1922), ed. by James D. Richardson
- Volume 1 (pp. 1-467, Founding documents-Madison): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 2 (pp. 468-964, Madison-Adams): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3 (pp. 965-1465, Adams-Jackson): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 4 (pp. 1466-1957, Jackson-Tyler): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 5 (pp. 1958-2460, Tyler-Polk): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 6 (pp. 2461-2951, Polk-Pierce): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 7 (pp. 2952-3449, Pierce-Lincoln): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 8 (pp. 3450-3878, Lincoln-Grant): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 9 (pp. 3979-4514, Grant-Hayes): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 10 (pp. 4515-5037, Hayes-Cleveland): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 11 (pp. 5038-5573, Cleveland-Harrison): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 12 (pp. 5574-6110, Harrison-Cleveland): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 13 (pp. 6111-6613, Cleveland-McKinley): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 14 (pp. 6614-7116, McKinley-Roosevelt): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 15 (pp. 7117-7620, Roosevelt-Taft): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 16 (pp. 7621-8124, Taft-Wilson): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 17 (pp. 8126-8634, Wilson): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 18 (pp. 8635-9123, Wilson-Harding): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 19 (Index, A-K): multipl formats at archive.org
- Volume 20 (Index, L-Z, and Appendix): multiple formats at archive.org
- all volumes except 8: page images at HathiTrust
- Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
- Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Henry Reeve
- A Disquisition on Government; and A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (Columbia, SC: Printed by A. S. Johnston, 1851), by John C. Calhoun, ed. by Richard K. Crallé
- A Disquisition on Government; and A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1853), by John C. Calhoun, ed. by Richard K. Crallé (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Duties and Dangers of Those Who are Born Free: A Sermon Preached at the Annual Election, January 2, 1833, Before His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Governor, His Honor Thomas L. Winhrop, Lieutenant Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts (Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1833), by William B. O. Peabody
- Dynamic Americanism (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill co., c1920), by Arnold Bennett Hall (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Experiments in Government, and the Essentials of the Constitution, by Elihu Root (Gutenberg text)
- Federal Usurpation (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Franklin Pierce (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Form and Functions of American Government (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., 1916), by Thomas Harrison Reed (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Guiding Principles for American Voters: An Introduction to the Study of Elementary Americanism (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1920), by Augustus Lynch Mason (multiple formats at Indiana)
- History of American Politics (Nonpartisan), Embracing a History of the Federal Government and of Political Parties in The Colonies and United States from 1607 to 1882 (Indianapolis: F. T. Neely and Co., 1883), by Walter R. Houghton (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Information for Immigrants Concerning the United States, Its Opportunities, Government and Institutions (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908), by Sons of the American Revolution (page images at HathiTrust)
- Internal Relations of the Cities, Towns, Villages, Counties, and States of the Union: or, The Municipalist, by Maurice A. Richter (page images at MOA)
- Les Promesses de la Vie Américaine (The Promise of American Life translated into French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1913), by Herbert David Croly, trans. by Firmin Roz and Emile Fénard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Manual of American Ideas, by Caspar Thomas Hopkins (page images at MOA)
- Our Political Drama: Conventions, Campaigns, Candidates, by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (page images at Google; US access only)
- Political and Social History of the United States, 1829-1925 (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Arthur M. Schlesinger (page images at HathiTrust)
- Practical Agitation (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900), by John Jay Chapman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Problems in American Democracy, by Thames Williamson (Gutenberg text)
- Problems in American Democracy (Boston et al.: D. C. Heath and Co., c1922), by Thames Williamson
- The Promise of American Life (New York: Macmillan, 1909), by Herbert David Croly (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Promise of American Life (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by Herbert David Croly
- The Republican: or, A Series of Essays on the Principles and Policy of Free States, Having a Particular Reference to the United States of America and the Individual States (copy owned and annotated by Adams, with an included broadside; Pittsfield, MA: Printed by P. Allen, 1820), by William C. Jarvis, contrib. by John Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Republican: or, A Series of Essays on the Principles and Policy of Free States, Having a Particular Reference to the United States of America and the Individual States (Pittsfield, MA: Printed by P. Allen, 1820), by William C. Jarvis (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses, by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at Bartleby)
- A Study of the American Commonwealth as Reflected by Orations of Burke and Webster (Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1893), by James Albert Woodburn and Cyrus W. Hodgin (multiple formats at Indiana)
- Thinking About Politics: American Government in Associational Perspective, by Paul F. DeLespinasse (frame-dependent HTML at adrian.edu)
- This Country of Ours (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903), by Benjamin Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
- "'Tis Sixty Years Since": Address of Charles Francis Adams, Founders Day, January 16, 1913, by Charles Francis Adams (Gutenberg text)
- Your Vote and How to Use It (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1918), by Gertrude Foster Brown, contrib. by Carrie Chapman Catt
- Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism: A New Frontier of Bigotry (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2003), by Alvin H. Rosenfeld (HTML at Wayback Machine)
- Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001), by Alexander DeConde (multiple formats at Northeastern)
- The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission (New York: New York University Press, c1975), by Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki (PDF at Wayback Machine)
- The Second Mayflower (first edition, c1993), by Kevin Swanson (HTML at reformed.org; JavaScript may need to be turned off for this site for reading)
- The Scar of Revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the Romantic Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Irena Grudzinska-Gross (HTML at UC Press)
- The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home: A Lecture (c1933), by Bernard Shaw (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The "Also Rans": Great Men Who Missed Making the Presidential Goal (New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., c1928), by Don C. Seitz (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Party Battle (New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Charles A. Beard (multiple formats at Google)
- Our Heritage From 1776: A Working Class View of the First American Revolution (Workers School Library v. 1; New York: The Workers School, ca. 1926), by Bertram D. Wolfe, Jay Lovestone, and William F. Dunne
- Address of the New York State Republican Reform League; Followed by The Third-Term Question, by Hon. Matthew Hale, and The Republic and the Presidency, by Hon. A.N. Cole (New York: Thompson and Moreau, 1880), by New York State Republican Reform League, Matthew Hale, and A. N. Cole (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Nation: A History (28 volumes; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904-1918), ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart, contrib. by Edward Potts Cheyney, Livingston Farrand, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Charles McLean Andrews, Evarts Boutell Greene, Reuben Gold Thwaites, George Elliott Howard, Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Andrew C. McLaughlin, John Spencer Bassett, Edward Channing, Kendric Charles Babcock, Frederick Jackson Turner, William MacDonald, George Pierce Garrison, Theodore Clarke Smith, French Ensor Chadwick, James K. Hosmer, William Archibald Dunning, Edwin Erle Sparks, Davis Rich Dewey, John Holladay Latané, Frederic Austin Ogg, and David Maydole Matteson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The American Party System: An Introduction to the Study of Political Parties in the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Charles Edward Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Politics (Non-Partisan) From the Beginning to Date (Chicago: C. R. Brodix, ca. 1882), by Thomas V. Cooper and Hector T. Fenton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- American Politics (Non-Partisan) From the Beginning to Date (7th and revised edition; Chicago: C. R. Brodix, 1884), by Thomas V. Cooper and Hector T. Fenton (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Politics (Non-Partisan) From the Beginning to Date (8th and revised edition; Chicago: C. R. Brodix, 1884), by Thomas V. Cooper and Hector T. Fenton (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Politics (Non-Partisan) From the Beginning to Date (13th and revised edition; Boston: B. A. Fowler and Co., 1889), by Thomas V. Cooper and Hector T. Fenton (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Politics (Non-Partisan) From the Beginning to Date (14th and revised edition; Boston: B. A. Fowler and Co., 1890), by Thomas V. Cooper and Hector T. Fenton (page images at HathiTrust)
- American Politics (Non-Partisan) From the Beginning to Date (15th and revised edition; Philadelphia: Fireside Pub. Co., 1892), by Thomas V. Cooper and Hector T. Fenton
- The Boss and the Machine: A Chronicle of the Politicians and Party Organization, by Samuel Peter Orth (Gutenberg text)
- The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution of the United States, by James M. Beck (Gutenberg text)
- Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose The Current Unrest (New York: M. Kennerley, 1914), by Walter Lippmann (page images at HathiTrust)
- Essays on Political Organization, by Union League of Philadelphia (page images at MOA)
- Fears for Democracy Regarded from the American Point of View, by Charles Ingersoll (page images at MOA)
- The Government, Strikebreaker: A Study of the Role of the Government in the Recent Industrial Crisis (Workers Party Library #2; New York: Workers Party of America, 1923), by Jay Lovestone
- How We are Governed in Alabama and the Nation (revised edition; Richmond, VA: Bell Book and Stationery Co., 1913), by Howard Lee McBain and I. W. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
- Imperial Democracy: A Study of the Relation of Government by the People, Equality Before the Law, and Other Tenets of Democracy to the Demands of a Vigorous Foreign Policy and Other Demands of Imperial Dominion (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by David Starr Jordan (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Letter to Grover Cleveland on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People (Boston: B. R. Tucker, 1886), by Lysander Spooner
- The Nation: The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States (New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1870), by Elisha Mulford
- A National Constitution: The Only Road to National Peace, by William Giles Dix (page images at MOA)
- The Origin, Tendencies and Principles of Government: or, A Review of the Rise and Fall of Nations From Early Historic Time to the Present (New York: Woodhull, Claflin and Co., 1871), by Victoria C. Woodhull (page images at Harvard)
- Our Dishonest Constitution (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1914), by Allan L. Benson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Plea for the Introduction of Responsible Government and the Representation of Capital Into the United States as Safeguards Against Communism and Disunion (Springfield, IL: Printed for the author by J. C. Hughes, 1879), by Van Buren Denslow (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Preface to Politics (New York and London: M. Kennerley, 1914), by Walter Lippmann (Gutenberg text)
- Recollection of Men and Things at Washington, During the Third of a Century (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Washington : W. H. and O. H. Morrison, 1869), by L. A. Gobright
- The Referendum in America, Together With Some Chapters on the Initiative and the Recall (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1911), by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Republican National Convention, St. Louis, June 16th to 18th, 1896; With a History of the Republican Party and a Survey of National Politics Since the Party's Foundation, by Republican National Convention, ed. by Charles M. Harvey
- Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America (1866 edition), by John William Draper (page images at MOA)
- Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America (1875 edition), by John William Draper (page images at MOA)
- American Workers Need a Labor Party (New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1944), by Joseph Hansen (PDF at flvc.org)
- The Wars of the Godly (New York: R. M. McBride, 1928), by Reuben Maury (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Complete Orations and Speeches of Henry W. Grady (New York: Hinds, Noble and Eldredge, c1910), by Henry Woodfin Grady, ed. by Edwin Du Bois Shurter (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Progressive Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1914), by Herbert David Croly (page images at HathiTrust)
- Progressive Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Herbert David Croly (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Society in America, by Harriet Martineau (HTML at Pfeiffer)
- Society in America (3 volumes; Saunders and Otley, 1837), by Harriet Martineau
- The Theory of Social Revolutions (1913), by Brooks Adams (Gutenberg text)
- Triumphant Democracy: or, Fifty Years' March of The Republic (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1886), by Andrew Carnegie (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Impasse of Democracy: A Study of the Modern Government in Action (New York: Harrison-Hilton Books, c1939), by Ernest S. Griffith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Black Magic: An Account of its Beneficial Use in Italy, of its Perversion in Bavaria, and of Certain Tendencies Which Might Necessitate its Study in America (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1924), by Kenneth Lewis Roberts
- Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated (Richmond: Shepherd and Pollard, 1820), by John Taylor (multiple formats at Google)
- The Gospel of Wealth, and Other Timely Essays (New York: Century Co., 1901), by Andrew Carnegie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Public Opinion, by Walter Lippmann (Gutenberg text)
- Public Opinion (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by Walter Lippmann (page images at HathiTrust)
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