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CONSTITUTION PRECEDENTS & PHILOSOPHICAL INFLUENCE
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact
Two Treatises of a Civil Government (John Locke)
The Second Treatisis of a Civil Government (John Locke)
Spirit of Laws (Charles de Secodant de Baron Montesquieu)
English Bill of Rights
US Declaration of Independence
US Articles of Confederation
Annapolis Convention of 1786
Constitution and Bill of Rights of Virginia
CONSTITUTION CONVENTION OF 1787
Debates of the Convention of 1787 (James Madison Notes)
Federal Journal of the Convention of 1787
Rufus King's Notes of the Convetion of 1787
William Patterson Notes of the Convention of 1787
Robert Yates Notes of the Convention of 1787
Alexander Hamilton Notes of the Federal Convention of 1787
James McHenry Notes of the Convention of 1787
William Pierce Notes of the Convention of 1787
RATIFICATION DEBATE
Federalist Papers 1-84
Anti Federalist Papers
Federal Farmer I-XVII
Brutus 1-16
Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania
Cato I-VI
Luther Martin I-VI
The Presidential term of Office
The Federal Judiciary and the issue of Trial by Jury
John DeWitt I-V
Patrick Henry
The Problem of Concurrent Taxation, Foreign War, Civil Wars, and Indian WarsBILL OF RIGHTS
Creating the Bill of Rights (Kenneth R. Rowling)
Debates and Proceeding of Congress 1789
INTERPERETATION
Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
OTHER INFLUENCES AND READINGS
George Washington Diaries
Max Farrand, The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 3vols.
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ReplyDeletejust wanted to say you're fighting the good fight here.
ReplyDeletesee you over at SCH.
cliff
Hey if you morons want to pretend your living in the past minus all the technological advances that no longer require centralized govt, go right ahead like when the believers of the earth is flat existed.
ReplyDeleteThe smart people move on with advancement to create what works best for all with science,proven truth and technological advancement. Even George W. Bush stated the constitution was just a piece of paper! And for you dumbass Tea party herd people the constituion has been changed by congress numerous times in 234 years.
The next change should be outlawing Representative govt and it's constitutional republic. Then replaced by a true direct daily democracy where full legislative rule & control over money,business & govt is in the direct hands of the citizens "ONLY".
And So the communist, Socialist traitor condemns th Constitution and the power being in the hands of the citizens. The government continually proves your asnine statement to be a total failure. Well done!!
DeleteRe: Comment timestamped October 22, 2010 10:35 AM
ReplyDeleteGratuitous crudities aside, this argument for consummate democracy (i.e. rule of the majority) ignores the lessons learned from the experience of the ancient Greek democracies and the Roman republic. It also ignores a central lesson of the American revolution that just government be seen in terms of Natural Law and human nature which -- relative to technology, etc. -- are unchanging. And would seem to be unaware that Bolshevik is Russian for 'the majority'. That the comment utterly ignores "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." ect. goes without saying. The comment is, overall, ignorant.