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| Thematic table of contents | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction : American political thought | |
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| A revolutionary experiment : 1620-1800 | |
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| The little speech (1639) | |
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| "Democracy is founded in scripture" (1717) | |
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| Observations concerning the increase of mankind, the peopling of countries, etc. (1751) | |
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| Excerpts from the Great law of peace of the Iroquois nations (n.d.) | |
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| Short hints towards a scheme for uniting the northern colonies (1754) | |
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| The Albany plan of union (1754) | |
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| "The rights of the colonists" (1772) | |
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| Common sense (1776) | |
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| The American crisis I (1777) | |
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| Rights of man - part one (1791) | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America (1776) | |
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| Articles of Confederation (ratified 1781) | |
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| "Thoughts on government" (1776) | |
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| "A defense of the Constitutions of the United States" (1787) | |
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| Correspondence with Abigail Adams (1776) | |
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| The Constitution of the United States of America (1787) | |
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| In favor of adoption of the Constitution | |
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| James Madison's Federalist essays (1787-88) | |
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| Alexander Hamilton's Federalist essays (1787-88) | |
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| Against adoption of the Constitution | |
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| Dissent of the Pennsylvania minority (1787) | |
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| Letter from Samuel Adams to Richard Henry Lee (1787) | |
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| Richard Henry Lee's Letters from a federal farmer (1787) | |
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| Report on credit (1790) | |
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| Opinion on the constitutionality of the bank (1791) | |
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| Report on manufacturers (1791) | |
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| "Madison's report to the Virginia general assembly" (1800) | |
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| Notes on Virginia (1785) | |
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| First inaugural address (1801) | |
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| Selected letters (1787-1823) | |
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| Development and democracy : 1800-1865 | |
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| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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| McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | |
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| "The laboring classes" (1840) | |
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| "Civil disobedience" (1848) | |
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| "Declaration of sentiments and resolutions" (1848) | |
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| Address to the New York State legislature (1860) | |
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| Speech at the anti-slavery association (1848) | |
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| "The various phases of anti-slavery" (1855) | |
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| A disquisition on government (1848) | |
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| Cannibals all! (1857) | |
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| Speech on the Dred Scott decision (1857) | |
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| Letter to Boston republicans (1859) | |
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| Cooper union address (1860) | |
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| First inaugural address (1861) | |
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| Second annual message to Congress (1862) | |
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| The Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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| Second inaugural address (1865) | |
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| Reconstruction and industrialization : 1865-1900 | |
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| The Civil War Constitutional amendments and the failure of the "sixteenth" amendment | |
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| The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments (1865- 70) | |
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| Excerpts from The revolution (1869) | |
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| Debates at meetings of the Equal Rights Association (1869) | |
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| Susan B. Anthony's statement at the close of her trial (1873) | |
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| Susan B. Anthony's petition to Congress for remission of her fine (1874) | |
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| What social classes owe to each other (1884) | |
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| "The conquest of the United States by Spain" (1899) | |
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| Looking backward (1888) | |
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| The Ocala demands (December 1890) | |
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| The Populist Party platform (1892) | |
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| "Revolution : the evolution of socialism" (1894) | |
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| The devil's dictionary (1911) | |
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| The war prayer (1923 [1904-5]) | |
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| Black Elk speaks (1932) | |
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| The rise of the positive state : 1900-1945 | |
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| The souls of black folk (1903) | |
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| "Anarchism : what it really stands for" (1907) | |
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| "The tragedy of woman's emancipation" (1910) | |
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| "Revolutionary unionism" (1905) | |
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| Speech to the jury (1918) | |
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| The promise of American life (1909) | |
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| The Progressive Party platform (1912) | |
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| Article V of the Colorado State Constitution, as amended (1910) | |
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| The progressive era constitutional amendments, sixteen through twenty-one (1913-33) | |
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| The nature of scientific management (1912) | |
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| "The meaning of democracy" (1912) | |
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| The public and its problems (1927) | |
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| The Commonwealth Club address (1932) | |
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| Campaign address (1936) | |
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| An economic bill of rights (1944) | |
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| Liberalism, the new left, and the new right, 1945-90 | |
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| Inaugural speech (1961) | |
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| Letter from the Birmingham city jail (1963) | |
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| The Port Huron Statement (1962) | |
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| Our revolution is unique (1968) | |
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| A Sand County almanac (1966 [1949]) | |
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| First inaugural address (1981) | |
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| State of the Union address (1984) | |
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| The culture of narcissism (1979) | |
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| Women and the common life (1997) | |
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| Economic justice for all : pastoral letter on Catholic social teaching and the U.S. economy (1986) | |
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| Articles of amendment ratified | |
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| Articles of amendment not ratified | |
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| California Proposition 209 (1989) | |
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| "Achieving the 'dream' : a challenge to liberals and conservatives in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr." (1990) | |
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| Democracy and diversity, 1990-2004 | |
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| "Ecofeminist visions" (written 1991, revised 1993 and 2004) | |
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| Second inaugural address (1997) | |
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| "On the politics of change" (1997) | |
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| The great betrayal (1998) | |
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| Free the children (1998) | |
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| All our relations : native struggles for land and life (1999) | |
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| The Green Party platform (2000) | |
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| The national security strategy of the United States of America (2002) | |
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| "Wealth, democracy, and campaign finance in the United States" (2004) | |
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| "Children's right to vote" (2004) | |
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| "Restoring popular sovereignty : toward a politics of issues" (2004) | |
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| "Identity, diversity, and education for democracy" (2004) | |
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| About the editors | |