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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Founding Principles | |
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| The Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 1 (1835) | |
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| The Northwest Ordinance (1787) | |
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| Federalist 9 | |
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| Federalist 10 | |
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| Federalist 47 | |
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| Federalist 48 | |
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| Federalist 49 | |
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| Federalist 51 | |
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| Centinel, Letter I (1787) | |
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| James Madison, On Property (1792) | |
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| George Washington, Farewell Address (1796) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams (1813) | |
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| Federalism | |
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| Federalist 39 | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1784) | |
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| McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | |
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| Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) | |
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| United States v. Darby (1941) | |
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| Ronald W. Reagan, State of the Union Address (1982) | |
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| Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985) | |
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| U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995) | |
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| United States v. Lopez (1995) | |
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| President and Congress | |
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| Federalist 57 | |
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| Federalist 63 | |
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| Federalist 70 | |
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| Federalist 71 | |
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| Federalist 73 | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress in Special Session (1861) | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message to Congress (1942) | |
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| The War Powers Resolution (1973) | |
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| United States v. Nixon (1974) | |
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| Gerald R. Ford, The Nixon Pardon (1974) | |
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| George H. W. Bush, Message to the House of Representatives Returning without Approval the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (1989) | |
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| George W. Bush, September 11, 2001 (2001) | |
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| Rasul v. Bush (2004) | |
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| Richard B. Cheney, Remarks at the State Funeral for Ronald W. Reagan (2004) | |
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| Judiciary | |
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| Brutus, Essay XI (1788) | |
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| Federalist 78 | |
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| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861) | |
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| William J. Brennan Jr., Speech to the Text and Teaching Symposium, Georgetown University (1985) | |
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| Robert H. Bork, Interpreting the Constitution (1987) | |
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| Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) | |
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| Roe v. Wade (1973) | |
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| Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992) | |
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| Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Speaking in a Judicial Voice (1992) | |
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| Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) | |
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| Lee v. Weisman (1992) | |
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| Santa Fe Independent School District v. Jane Doe (2000) | |
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| Constitutional Preservation and Political Change | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nehemiah Dodge and Others: A Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, in the State of Connecticut (1802) | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (1838) | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, vol. 2: What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear (1840) | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Final Text of the Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg (1863) | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States (1908) | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club Campaign Speech (1932) | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to the Young Democratic Clubs of America (1935) | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat on Party Primaries (1938) | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, Message on the State of the Union (1944) | |
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| The Port Huron Statement (1962) | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address (1964) | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at the University of Michigan (1964) | |
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| Ronald W. Reagan, State of the Union Address (1982) | |
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| Mario M. Cuomo, Speech Delivered at the Harvard Class Day (1985) | |
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| Vaclav Havel, Address to a Joint Session of Congress (1990) | |
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| Dan Quayle, Restoring Basic Values, Strengthening the Family (1992) | |
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| Bill Clinton, Remarks at the Welfare Reform Bill Signing (1996) | |
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| Bill Clinton, Remarks on the Human Genome Project (2000) | |
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| George W. Bush, Remarks on Stem Cell Research (2001) | |
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| Civil Rights: Race | |
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| Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) | |
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| Sections of the U.S. Constitution Concerning Slavery | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1784) | |
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| David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World (1829) | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise (1854) | |
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| Frederick Douglass, Address for the Promotion of Colored Enlistment (1864) | |
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| Frederick Douglass, Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876) | |
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| Alexander Stephens, The "Corner Stone" Speech (1861) | |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
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| Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | |
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| Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963) | |
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| Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream (1963) | |
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| Lyndon B. Johnson, Address on Voting Rights (1965) | |
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| South Carolina v. Katzenbach (1966) | |
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| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) | |
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| Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980) | |
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| Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co. (1989) | |
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| Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena (1995) | |
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| Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) | |
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| Civil Rights: Gender | |
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| Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams (1776) | |
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| John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams (1776) | |
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| The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848) | |
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| Frederick Douglass, Woman's Suffrage Movement (1870) | |
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| Jane Addams, Why Women Should Vote (1910) | |
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| Rostker v. Goldberg (1981) | |
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| Jeane Kirkpatrick, Address to the Women's Forum (1984) | |
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| Barbara Jordan, Change: From What to What? (1992) | |
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| Romer v. Evans (1996) | |
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| Lawrence v. Texas (2003) | |
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| Foreign Policy | |
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| Federalist 23 | |
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| Alexander Hamilton, Pacificus, Letter No. 1 (1793) | |
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| James Madison, Helvidius, Letter No. 1 (1793) | |
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| George Washington, Farewell Address (1796) | |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" Speech (1941) | |
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| George F. Kennan, The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947) | |
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| Harry S Truman, Special Message to Congress on Greece and Turkey: The Truman Doctrine (1947) | |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1961) | |
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| John F. Kennedy, "Ich bin ein Berliner" (1963) | |
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| Jimmy Carter, Address at the University of Notre Dame (1977) | |
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| Jeane Kirkpatrick, Address Before the American Enterprise Institute (1981) | |
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| Ronald W. Reagan, Address to the British Parliament (1982) | |
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| Malcolm Wallop, Defense Policy after the Cold War (1992) | |