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Preface | |
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Introduction to Volume I | |
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Equality | |
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Acts Passed in the Virginia House of Burgesses Pertaining to Slavery | |
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Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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Thomas Paine: Common Sense (1776) | |
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Benjamin Franklin: Letter to Sarah Franklin Bache (1784) | |
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Statement by Massachusetts Yeomen Opposing the Constitution (1788) | |
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Thomas Jefferson: Letter to John Adams (1813) | |
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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson (1813) | |
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James Madison: Federalist No. 54 (1788) | |
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Judith Sargent Murray: On the Equality of the Sexes (1790) | |
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John C. Calhoun: Speech in the Senate on the Oregon Bill (1848) | |
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Daniel Webster: Speech to the United States Senate on Slavery (1850) | |
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Stephen Douglas: Speech on Slavery and the Founding (1858) | |
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Abraham Lincoln: Speech on Slavery and the Founding (1858) | |
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Abraham Lincoln: Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) | |
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (1840) | |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Seneca Falls Declaration (1848) | |
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Statement to the People of the State of South Carolina by the Colored State Convention (1865) | |
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Discussion Questions for Chapter 1 | |
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Virtue | |
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William Penn: Letter to His Children (1682) | |
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Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography (1771) | |
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Samuel Adams: Letter in the Boston Gazette (1772) | |
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Samuel Langdon: A Government Corrupted by Vice and Recovered by Righteousness (1775) | |
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Thomas Paine: The American Crisis (1780) | |
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Benjamin Franklin: Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy (1787) | |
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George Washington: Inaugural Address (1789) | |
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George Washington: Farewell Address (1796) | |
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Thomas Jefferson: Letter to His Grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1808) | |
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Lyman Beecher: Six Sermons on Intemperance (1828) | |
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Abraham Lincoln: Address to the Washington Temperance Society in Springfield, Illinois (1842) | |
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William A. Alcott: The Young Wife (1838) | |
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"Friend of Virtue": "The Just Treatment of Licentious Men. Addressed to Christian Mothers, Wives, Sisters, and Daughters" (1838) | |
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Susan B. Anthony: Speech on Social Purity (1875) | |
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (1840) | |
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William Ellery Channing: On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes (1840) | |
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Discussion Questions for Chapter 2 | |
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Religion | |
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John Winthrop: Excerpt from "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) | |
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John Adams: An Excerpt from His Diary (1756) | |
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Benjamin Franklin: Reasons Against Satirizing Religion (1757) | |
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Benjamin Franklin: An Excerpt from His Autobiography (1771) | |
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James Madison: Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1787) | |
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James Madison: Excerpts from the Memorial and Remonstrance (1785) | |
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A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1786) | |
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George Washington: Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789) | |
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George Washington: An Excerpt from the Farewell Address (1796) | |
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George Washington: Letter to Hebrew Congregation at Newport (1790) | |
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Thomas Jefferson: Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association (1802) | |
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Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Rev. Samuel Miller (1808) | |
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Mercy Otis Warren: An Excerpt from History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (1805) | |
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Justice Joseph Story: An Excerpt from the Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833) | |
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (1835) | |
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Abraham Lincoln: Message to the Voters of the Seventh Congressional District (1846) | |
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Abraham Lincoln: Farewell Address at Springfield (1861) | |
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Abraham Lincoln: Proclamation of Thanksgiving (1863) | |
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Abraham Lincoln: An Excerpt from the Second Inaugural Address (1865) | |
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Discussion Questions for Chapter 3 | |
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Education | |
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Thomas Shephard: Letter to His Son at Harvard College (1637) | |
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Regulations at Yale College (1745) | |
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Benjamin Franklin: Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania (1749) | |
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The Alphabet in the New England Primer (1777) | |
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Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia (1781) | |
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George Washington: Letter to George Chapman (1784) | |
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Noah Webster: On the Education of Youth in America (1788) | |
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Benjamin Rush: Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic (1798) | |
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Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Nathaniel Burwell (1818) | |
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Emma Willard: Improving Female Education (1819) | |
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Catharine Beecher: Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education (1829) | |
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The Massachusetts Compulsory School Attendance Act (1836) | |
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Horace Mann: Tenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education (1846) | |
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Morrill Act (1862) | |
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Harper's Weekly Editorial: "An Undoubted Right" (1874) | |
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Discussion Questions for Chapter 4 | |
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Republican Government | |
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An Excerpt from the Declaration and Resolves of the Continental Congress (1774) | |
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Alexander Hamilton: An Excerpt from "The Farmer Refuted" (1775) | |
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Jonathan Boucher: An Excerpt from A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution (1775) | |
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Sam Adams: An Excerpt from a Letter to Noah Webster (1784) | |
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James Madison: Excerpts from Federalist 10 (1787) | |
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Robert Yates: An Excerpt from Brutus 1 (1787) | |
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Samuel Bryan: An Excerpt from Centinel 1 (1787) | |
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James Madison: An Excerpt from Federalist 39 (1788) | |
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Alexander Hamilton: An Excerpt from Federalist 71 (1788) | |
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James Madison: An Excerpt from Federalist 52 (1788) | |
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Chancellor James Kent: Speech to the New York State Constitutional Convention (1821) | |
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David Buel: Speech to the New York State Constitutional Convention (1821) | |
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (1835) | |
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Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (1835) | |
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Senator William Stewart: Speech in Favor of the Fifteenth Amendment (1869) | |
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Senator James Dixon: Speech Against the Fifteenth Amendment (1869) | |
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Senator Willard Warner: Speech on the Fifteenth Amendment (1869) | |
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Discussion Questions for Chapter 5 | |
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Limited Government | |
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John Locke: An Excerpt from the Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690) | |
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An Excerpt from "An Old Whig No. 2" (1787) | |
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James Madison: An Excerpt from Federalist 44 (1788) | |
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James Madison: An Excerpt from Federalist 39 (1788) | |
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Robert Yates: An Excerpt from Brutus 1 (1787) | |
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Robert Yates: An Excerpt from Brutus 2 (1787) | |
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Alexander Hamilton: An Excerpt from Federalist 84 (1788) | |
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James Madison: The Virginia Resolutions (1798) | |
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Rhode Island's Response to the Virginia Resolutions (1799) | |
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Chief Justice John Marshall: Opinion of the Court in Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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Chief Justice John Marshall: Opinion of the Court in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | |
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Chief Justice John Marshall: Opinion of the Court in Barron v. Baltimore (1833) | |
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South Carolina Declaration of the Causes of Secession (1860) | |
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Abraham Lincoln: An Excerpt from the Message to Congress in Special Session (1861) | |
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Justice David Davis: Opinion of the Court in Ex Parte Milligan (1866) | |
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Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase: Concurring Opinion in Ex Parte Milligan (1866) | |
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Discussion Questions for Chapter 6 | |
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Economic Liberty | |
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Gabriel Thomas: An Account of West Jersey and Pennsylvania (1698) | |
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John Dickinson: Letter from a Farmer (1767) | |
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William Manning: Observations on Shays' Rebellion (1799) | |
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Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia (1784) | |
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Alexander Hamilton: Report on Manufactures (1791) | |
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Alexander Hamilton: Remarks on the Constitutionality of the First National Bank of the United States (1791) | |
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Thomas Jefferson: Views on the First National Bank of the United States (1791) | |
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Andrew Jackson: Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States (1832) | |
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Daniel Webster: A Reply to Jackson's Veto (1832) | |
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John Quincy Adams: State of the Union Message (1825) | |
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Henry Clay: A Defense of the American System (1832) | |
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John C. Calhoun: Speech Against the Force Bill (1833) | |
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The Bylaws for the Philadelphia and California Enterprise Association (1849) | |
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Homestead Act (1862) | |
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California Anti-Chinese Immigration Law (1862) | |
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Discussion Questions for Chapter 7 | |
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Index | |