Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness

One of the great polemics and the key founding anarchist text, Godwin's Enquiry is his major work of political philosophy.

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice established William Godwin as the chief exponent of British radicalism, in the tradition of the French Revolution. In it, he criticizes the 'brute engine' of government for systematizing oppression of individual liberty in the name of law and order, and calls for the abolition of all forms of rule and for the institution of an anarchi...