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• Political rights -- England
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• Political rights -- Kazakhstan
• Political rights -- Pennsylvania
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• Political rights -- United States
• Petition, Right of
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• The Globalization of Human Rights (Tokyo and New York: United Nations University Press, c2003), ed. by Jean-Marc Coicaud, Michael W. Doyle, and Anne-Marie Gardner (page images at Google)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, November 21, 1991 (Washington: GPO, 1992), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of thanks to His Majesty, with the resolutions upon which it was founded [electronic resource]. ([Toronto?] : Mackenzie, [1828]), by Upper Canada. Legislature. House of Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• An enquiry into the evils of general suffrage and frequent elections in Lower Canada [electronic resource] / (Montreal : Printed and sold by Nahum Mower ..., 1810), by John Henry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catéchisme politique ou Elémens du droit public et constitutionnel du Canada [ressource électronique] : mis à la portée du peuple / ([Montréal? : s.n.], 1851), by Antoine Gérin-Lajoie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devoirs du citoyen [ressource électronique] : discours pronocés à la distribution des prix du Séminaire de St. Hyacinthe, le 6 juillet 1875. ([St. Hyacinthe, Québec? : s.n.], 1875), by Joseph-Sabin Raymond and Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Essay on constitutional liberty [electronic resource] : wherein the legal means of preventing the unconstitutional influence of the Crown are pointed out. (London : Printed by H. Reynell ..., 1780), by J. L. Lolme (page images at HathiTrust)
• The necessity of reform [electronic resource] : a tract for the times addressed to the colonists of Vancouver Island / ([Victoria, B.C.? : s.n.], 1859), by Alfred Waddington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix to Report on Congressional investigations / ([Chicago] : American Bar Association Special Committee on Individual Rights as Affected by National Security, 1954), by Frederick A. Ballard, Whitney North Seymour, and American Bar Association. Special Committee on Individual Rights as Affected by National Security (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Political and civil rights in the United States : a collection of legal and related materials / (Buffalo, N.Y. : Dennis, 1952), by Thomas I. Emerson and David Haber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moral obligation of voting. (Washington, Catholic University of America Press, 1952), by Titus Cranny (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Democratic developments in Sub-Saharan Africa : moving forwards or backwards? : hearing before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, July 17, 2007. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2007), by United States Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Equal representation in Congress : providing voting rights to the District of Columbia : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, May 15, 2007. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2008), by United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Della morale del cittadino : considerazioni di un Italiano per uso dei Italiani. (Italia : [s.n.], 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• El derecho a la rehabilitación de los derechos políticos : el caso Hernández : comentarios a la sentencia, Sentencia SUP-JDC-20/2007 / (México, D.F. : Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, 2010), by Luis Efrén Ríos Vega, Gerardo Icaza Hernández de, and Mexico. Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of reform : political and legal / (London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1865), by John Boyd Kinnear (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political change in China : public participation and local governance reforms : roundtable before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, May 15, 2006. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dobrogea s i drepturile politice ale locuitorilor ei (Constant a : Tip. Ovidiu, 1905), by Ioan N. Roman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modification of the Hatch Act : hearings before the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs and Health and the Subcommittee on Government Operations and Metropolitan Affairs of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session on H.R. 4028 ... January 30, and May 13, 1986. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, U.S. G.P.O., 1987), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs and Health and United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Government Operations and Metropolitan Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civil and political rights in the United States : initial report of the United States of America to the U.N. Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. (Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of State : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., [1994]), by United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting Rights Act : report together with additional views of the Subcommittee on the Constitution to the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on S. 1992 (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaders' guide for individual liberty, USA. (Washington, D.C. : League of Women Voters, 1951), by League of Women Voters (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Keeping democracy on track : hotspots in Latin America : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, September 28, 2005. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political prisoners in China : trends and implications for U.S. policy : hearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, August 3, 2010. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2010), by United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China (page images at HathiTrust)
• A public hearing. San Francisco, California, July 28 and 29, 1958 ([Sacramento?, 1958?]), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The state of democracy in the Americas : hearing before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Global Narcotics Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, June 30, 2011 (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2011), by Peace Corps United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political and civil rights in the United States; a collection of legal and related materials, (Buffalo, Dennis & Co., 1952), by Thomas Irwin Emerson and David Haber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The necessity of atheism ; and Declaration of rights / ([Charlottesville, Va. : The Patrick Henry Literary Society, 1952.]), by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and University of Virginia. Patrick Henry Literary Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Wesen der politischen Freiheit / (Tübingen : J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1911), by Leopold von Wiese (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'organization et la représentation des intérêts professionnels en Belgique, en Hollande, en Allemagne, aux États-Unis et en France / (Paris : H. Jouve, 1909), by Henry Maire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Address of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland : to the people of Great Britain and Ireland / (London : E. Detkens, 1846), by Dudley Stuart and England) Literary Association of the Friends of Poland (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civil society and nationalism in North Korea : foundations for political change? / (Canberra : Dept. of International Relations, Australian National University, 1991), by James Cotton and Australian National University. Dept. of International Relations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The charms of benevolence, and patriotic mentor : or, the rights and privileges of republicanism, contrasted with the wrongs and usurpations of monarchy. (Philadelphia : published by Johnston and Patterson, 1813), by Thomas Branagan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Common sense justice for the nation's capital : an examination of proposals to give D.C. residents direct representation : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, June 23, 2004. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2004), by United State House Committee on Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Condición política del militar. (Buenos Aires : A. Grau, 1908), by Guillermo Teobaldi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Principes ou élémens du droit politique / (Lausanne : F. Grasset & Comp., 1784), by J. J. Burlamaqui (page images at HathiTrust)
• "White book" on the 1992 general election in Indonesia / (Ithaca, New York : Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994), by Badan Perlindungan Hak-Hak Politik Rakyat Dalam Menghadapi Pemilihan Umum 1992 (Indonesia), Dwight Y King, and Badan Perlindungan Hak-Hak Politik Rakyat Dalam Menghadapi Pemilihan Umum 1992 (Indonesia) Buku putih. English (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voting Rights Act [microform] : report together with additional views of the Subcommittee on the Constitution to the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on S. 1992. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human rights in Latin America, 1964-1980 : a selective annotated bibliography / (Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by Latin American Studies Association and Library of Congress. Hispanic Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Citizenship in American history and government. ([Boston, Mass.] : Pearson Custom Pub., [2005]), by Pearson Custom Publishing and United States. Army. Junior ROTC. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political and civil rights in the United States; a collection of legal and related materials, (Buffalo, Dennis, 1958), by Thomas I. Emerson and David Haber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tři rozhovory s Presidentem Masarykem (Praha : Čin, 1926), by Czechoslovakia. President (1918-1935 : Masaryk) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Religion et politique : massacres / (Liege : D'heur Libraire, [1878]), by Jean Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The free-born subject, or, The Englishmans birthright asserted against all tyrannical vsurpations either in church or state (London : Printed for Henry Brome ..., 1679), by Roger L'Estrange (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Regale necessarium, or, The legality, reason, and necessity of the rights and priviledges justly claimed by the Kings servants and which ought to be allowed unto them / by Fabian Philipps. (London : Printed for Christopher Wilkinson, 1671), by Fabian Philipps (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Englands settlement mistaken, or, A short survey of a pamphlet called England's settlement upon the two solid foundations of the peoples civil and religious liberties, pleading for a toleration of all religions wherein his ten arguments for toleration are confuted as so many sophisms and fallacies / by a well-willer to both civil and religious liberties of the people. (London : Printed by D. Maxwell, 1660), by Well-willer to both civil and religious liberties of the people (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The American crisis, and a letter to Sir Guy Carleton, on the murder of Captain Huddy, and the intended retaliation on Captain Asgill, of the Guards. By Thomas Paine,: (London : printed and sold by Daniel Isaac Eaton, [1796?]), by Thomas Paine (HTML at ECCO TCP)
• Pigs' meat; or, lessons for the swinish multitude: Published in weekly penny numbers, collected by the poor man's advocate (an old veteran in the cause of freedom) in the course of his reading for more than twenty years. Intended to promote among the labouring part of mankind proper ideas of their situation, of their importance, and of their rights. And to convince them that their forlorn condition has not been entirely overlooked and forgotten, nor their just cause unpleaded, neither by their maker not by the best and most enlightened of men in all ages. (London : printed for T. Spence, at the hive of liberty, No. 8, Little-Turnstile, High-Holborn, [1795?]), by Thomas Spence (HTML at ECCO TCP)
• Pigs' meat; or, lessons for the swinish multitude: Published in weekly penny numbers, collected by the poor man's advocate (an old veteran in the cause of freedom) in the course of his reading for more than twenty years. Intended to promote among the labouring part of mankind proper ideas of their situation, of their importance, and of their rights. And to convince them that their forlorn condition has not been entirely overlooked and forgotten, nor their just cause unpleaded, neither by their maker not by the best and most enlightened of men in all ages. (London : printed for T. Spence, at the hive of liberty, No. 8, Little-Turnstile, High-Holborn, [1795?]), by Thomas Spence (HTML at ECCO TCP)

• Kazahkstan: Freedom of the Media and Political Freedoms in the Prelude to the 1999 Elections (1999), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (HTML with commentary at hrw.org)

• An Address to those Quakers, who perversely refused to pay any regard to the late provincial fast, May 21, 1756. To which is added, a celebrated paper, reprinted from the Monitor, or British freeholder, numb. 28. on occasion of the Quakers refusing to keep the general fast appointed in England, Feb. 6. 1756. : [Five lines of quotations] (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by James Chattin, at the newest-printing-office, on the south side of the Jersey Market., 1756. Price six-pence) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An Address to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania, by those freemen, of the city of Philadelphia, who are now confined in the Mason's lodge, by virtue of a general warrant. Signed in Council by the vice president of the Council of Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Robert Bell, in Third-Street., MDCCLXXVII. [1777]), by Israel Pemberton (HTML at Evans TCP)

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