• Syllabus for Section 001: TR 11:00-12:15 p.m.
• Goals of Course Discussion and Debate
• Review for Examination 1

  Main-Points Assignments:

1. John Cotton, The Divine Right to Occupy the Land (1630)

2. John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (1630)

3. The Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637)

4. John Winthrop, Little Speech on Liberty (1645)

5. Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1772)

6. Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny (1772)

7. Thomas Pain, Common Sense (1776)

8. Edmund Burke, Conciliation with America (1775)

9. Adam Smith, America and the Wealth of Nations (1776)

10. Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776)

11. James Madison, Federalist #10 (1787-1788)

12. Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson on Slavery (1784)

13. Michael St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)

14. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Jefferson and Adams on Aristocracy (1813)

15. Daniel Webster, Against Universal Manhood Suffrage (1820)

16. George Bancroft, The Office of the People (1835)

17. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835)

  Links to websites and other material:

1. John Cotton, The Divine Right to Occupy the Land
2. Adam Smith: (Part II, Economic Policy)
3. Adam Smith: The Principle of the Mercantile System
4. Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer
5. Jefferson on Slavery (1784)
6. PBS: Jefferson's Blood
7. Sally Hemings' Biography
8. Jefferson's letter to Adams on natural and artificial aristocracy
9. Adam's letter to Jefferson on equality and aristocracy
10. Jefferson's letter or Adams on equality and aristocracy
11. Some excerpts of Jefferson's letters to Adams
12. Adams Re-Considered in Harper’s Magazine
13. Alexis de Tocqueville
14. George Bancroft, The Office of the People
15. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
16. Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Young American
17. Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
18. Alexander Stephens, Slavery and the Confederacy
19. Bradwell v. The State of Illinois (1873)
20. William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
21. Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class
22. Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)
23. W.E.B. Du Bois, Strivings of the Negro People (1897)
24. W.E.B.Du Bois (PowerPoint)
25. Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life (1900)
26. Roosevelt and U.S. Imperialism
27. Lochner v. New York (1905)
28. William James, The Moral Equivalent of War (1910)
29. The Robert Frost Web Page
30. Abrams v. United States (1919)
31. Abrams v. United States 2
32. John F. Carter, Jr., Wild Young People (1920)
33. Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
34. Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream
35. U.S. Supreme Court, Brandenburg v. Ohio