The great end of government and laws is human happiness; the rulers ought, therefore, to understand and know on what it consists; and the means of producing it. — Hon. Jesse Root, “On the Principles ...

If a place is truly “sensitive,” the state must provide armed security. In addition to having certain objective benefits from a policy perspective—security at least minimizes the threat of an armed ...

The Principles of Power is a political analysis of the history of continental Europe during the last one hundred and fifty years in terms of the theory of “legitimacy.” In his previous book, The ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Scott Morrison’s action in having himself appointed secretly to multiple ministries was legal but breached “the principle of ...

This July 4th weekend, read about the bold and radical experiment to test a wholly new form of government Barbara Clark Smith When colonists began to argue with the British government in the mid-1760s ...