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Mark Alcorn’s reading list

Reading list for HIST195, Democratic Citizenship

• Hume on the Origin of Government

  Source: David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary, edited and with a Foreword, Notes, and Glossary by Eugene F. Miller, with an appendix of variant readings from the 1889 edition by T.H. Green and T.H. Grose, revised edition (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1987).

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=889&Itemid=262 on 2008/7/6

• 1215: Magna Carta

  Source: The American Republic: Primary Sources, ed. Bruce Frohnen (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002).

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=426&Itemid=264 on 2008/7/6

• Mayflower Compact (Agreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth)

  Short and sweet, don’t read more than the Mayflower Compact.

  Donald S. Lutz, Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History, ed. Donald S. Lutz (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1998). Chapter: Massachusetts: 3: [Agreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth] (The Mayflower Compact)

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/694/102425 on 2008-08-23

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

  Donald S. Lutz, Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History, ed. Donald S. Lutz (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1998). Chapter: 43: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/694/102633 on 2008-08-23

• 1776: Declaration of Independence (various drafts)

  Source:A chapter in Becker’s The Declaration of Independence: A Study on the History of Political Ideas (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922).

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=519&Itemid=264 on 2008/7/6

• 1787: US Constitution

  Source: The American Republic: Primary Sources, ed. Bruce Frohnen (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002).

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=427&Itemid=264 on 2008/7/6

• Wilson’s State House Yard Speech

  Colleen A. Sheehan, Friends of the Constitution: Writings of the “Other” Federalists, 1787-1788, edited by Colleen A. Sheehan and Gary L. McDowell (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1998). Chapter: James Wilson Speech

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/2069/156165 on 2008-08-20

• Federalist: A Reader’s Guide

  Source: In The Federalist (The Gideon Edition), Edited with an Introduction, Reader’s Guide, Constitutional Cross-reference, Index, and Glossary by George W. Carey and James McClellan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001).

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=827&Itemid=287 on 2008/7/6

• 1789: Madison, Speech Introducing Proposed Amendments to the Constitution

  Source: The American Republic: Primary Sources, ed. Bruce Frohnen (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002).

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1079&Itemid=264 on 2008/7/6

• 1791: US Bill of Rights (1st 10 Amendments) - with commentary

  Source: James McClellan’s Liberty, Order, and Justice: An Introduction to the Constitutional Principles of American Government (3rd ed.) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000).

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=574&Itemid=264 on 2008/7/6

• 1798-1992: US Bill of Rights Amendments (XI-XXVII)

  Source: James McClellan’s Liberty, Order, and Justice: An Introduction to the Constitutional Principles of American Government (3rd ed.) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000).

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=576&Itemid=264 on 2008/7/6

• 10: “Equal Protection of the Laws” - Raoul Berger, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment [1977]

  Raoul Berger, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Foreword by Forrest McDonald (2nd ed.) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1997). Chapter: 10: “Equal Protection of the Laws”

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/675/106933 on 2008-08-23

• 4: Negro Suffrage Was Excluded - Raoul Berger, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment [1977]

  Raoul Berger, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Foreword by Forrest McDonald (2nd ed.) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1997). Chapter: 4: Negro Suffrage Was Excluded

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/675/106906 on 2008-08-23

• 7: Segregated Schools - Raoul Berger, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment [1977]

  Raoul Berger, Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Foreword by Forrest McDonald (2nd ed.) (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1997). Chapter: 7: Segregated Schools

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/675/106923 on 2008-08-23

• Magna Carta: An Historical Introduction

  Source: McKechnie’s introduction to Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John, with an Historical Introduction, by William Sharp McKechnie (Glasgow: Maclehose, 1914).

  Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=453&Itemid=284 on 2008/7/6