Cicero — De Re Publica (On the Commonwealth)

Cicero's dialogue on the ideal state, modelled on Plato but rooted in Roman experience, praising a mixed constitution. It survives in part through the celebrated 'Dream of Scipio.'

Sources for Cicero — De Re Publica (On the Commonwealth)

• Read the full text
• https://archive.org/details/treatisescicero00ciceuoft
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_re_publica

Cicero — De Re Publica (On the Commonwealth) in Governance & Society

Held in the Governance & Society chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.

• Aristotle — Politics (−350)
• Cicero — De Legibus (On the Laws) (−52)
• Kautilya — Arthashastra (−300)
• Machiavelli — The Prince (1532)
• Plato — The Republic (−380)
• Thomas Hobbes — Leviathan (1651)
• John Locke — Two Treatises of Government (1689)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau — The Social Contract (1762)
• Thomas Paine — Common Sense (1776)
• Thomas Paine — Rights of Man (1791)
• Alexis de Tocqueville — Democracy in America (1835)
• John Stuart Mill — On Liberty (1859)