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Shakespeare, William. "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act. 4, sc. 2.

Kipling, Rudyard. "The White Man's Burden." Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, I. 1.

Kautilya. Arthashastra. India Penguin Classics, 2000, bk. 6, ch. 2.

Franklin, Benjamin. "Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, 11 Nov. 1755." Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-06-02-0107

Thoreau, Henry David. "Conclusion." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 15: Its great defect: can only legislate for states.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 2, poem 8.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Men." A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 3.