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Vol 1: From Socrates & Pericles to Thomas Jefferson

Classical and Biblical Background
    Plato, The Apology of Socrates (complete)
    Pericles, The Funeral Oration
    Piety and Statecraft:
           • Liberty and the Bible
           • Dostoyevsky on Christian Liberty
           • Prayer in the Constitutional Convention of 1787
On Statecraft, Ancient and Modern:
    Machiavelli, Lessons from Rome
    Shakespeare, Ambition and Order (selections)
    Leo Strauss, The High and the Low
1215 and Its Consequences
    Magna Carta
    John Milton, Areopagitica
    The Liberty of the English-Speaking Peoples:
           • Blackstone, The Establishment of Genuine Liberty
           • Mill, On Liberty
           • Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
The New World:
    The First Charter of Virginia
    The Mayflower Compact
    The Massachusetts Body of Liberties
    The Maryland Toleration Act
    The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
    The Atlantic Charter
    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    The Illinois Privacy Commission, Final Report
Whose Liberty? Whose Equality?
    Slavery and Natural Liberty:
           • Aristotle on the Polis, the Female, the Natural Slave
           • Stephens on Slavery and the Bible
           • Grotius, On Slavery and the Law of Nations
           • Rousseau, Man is Born Free
           • Somerset's Case
           • Wesley, Thought Upon Slavery
           • The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
           • Henry, Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death
           • The Declaration of Independence.

Vol 2: From George III to Hitler and Stalin

776 and Its Consequences:
    The Declaration of Independence
    Publius, The Federalist
    The Alien and Sedition Acts
    The Virginia Resolutions
    Jefferson, The Final Inaugural Address
The Civil War Test
    Slavery, Abolitionism, and Secession:
             • Douglass, Meaning of the 4th of July for the Negro
             • Calhoun on Abolitionist Petitions
             • South Carolina, The Declaration of Secession
      Lincoln, Presidential Statements:
             • The First Inaugural Address
             • Message to Congress in Special Session
             • The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
             • The Final Emancipation Proclamation
             • The Gettysburg Address
             • The Second Inaugural Address
             • Last Public Address
      Civil War Songs
Whose Equality? Whose Liberty?
    The Material Conditions of Liberty and Equality:
           • Socrates, The City as Cave
           • Smith, The Wealth of Nations
           • Franklin, Info to Who Would Remove to America
           • Friedman, Poll Freedom Depends Upon Econ. Free.
           • The Marxist Alternatives
           • John Paul II, After the Failure of Communism
           • Nietzsche, The Last Man
           • Alexis de Tocqueville, On American Individualism
    Women and the Political Order:
           • The Seneca Falls Declaration on Women's Rights
           • Women's Christ Temp Union, Dec of Principles
           • Equity for Women in Education (including Athletics)
           • Blackmun, Abortion and Law
           • John Paul II, On the Rights of Women as Women
    Threats to Liberty, Foreign & Domestic, Real & Imagined:
           • Jackson, On Removing Indians and Retaining Slaves
           • Wilson, The Fourteen Points
           • Schenck et al, Against Conscription
           • Holmes, Jr., The Clear and Present Danger Test
           • Churchill, Arm Yourselves & Be Ye Men of Valour
           • Roosevelt, The Four Feedoms
    War and Morality
           • Hutchins, A New Moral Order
           • Ford, The Morality of Obliteration Bombing
           • McReavy, On "Appalling Insinuations"
           • Hutchins, The Good News of Damnation
           • Wartime Japanese Exclusion & Relocation Measures
           • Moral Relativism & United States Supreme Court
           • Churchill, The "Iron Curtain" Speech
    Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?:
           • The Schools Desegregation Decisions
           • Southern Memb. of Cong. on Forced Integration
           • Marshall on the Justice of Affirmative Action
           • Presidential Impeachment Exercises
           • U.S. Dept of Justice, Nation's Prison Population
           • Black, We Must Not Be Afraid to be Free
    The United States Constitution
    The Constitution of 1787
    Amendments to the Constitution of 1787
    Constitutional Amendments Proposed but not Ratified