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A Basic Constitutional Reading List...

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Very good ideas here...I highly recommend reading them...

The Declaration of Independence

The Constitution

The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification : Part One, September 1787-February 1788

Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters

George Washington : Writings

Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters

Benjamin Franklin: Writings

Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws

Democracy in America

The Social Contract

Candide

Locke: Two Treatises of Government

Edit: Read through the constitution then realized that version didn't include any amendments...:)
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Excellent list, I wish I had the time to read them this semester of school as it would all apply to the POLS class I'm taking.
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Hobbes - 3 Discourses

The Magna Carta

These help to understand the premise of British law and the philosophy of law, as the founding fathers understood it.

Very good list Arb, just had to top it off.
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Pahreyia wrote:Hobbes - 3 Discourses

The Magna Carta

These help to understand the premise of British law and the philosophy of law, as the founding fathers understood it.

Very good list Arb, just had to top it off.
Heh I don't often think of Common Law...I live in Louisiana...We're Napoleonic Code but yes both very good additions thanks...:)
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Actually while I think it's important for everyone on this board to read these if they haven't, there are a few I haven't even read. I think it's more imporat that for the PRESIDENT and his staff of... I mean cabinet to read them.
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The Anti-Federalist papers are some of the best written political discourses I've ever read.
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