Primary Texts Used in K-State Course dialogue on democracy

The Putney Debates	1647
An Agreement of the Free People of England	1649
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes	1651
Second Treatise on Civil Government by John Locke	1690
The Virginia Gazette	1736-1780
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men [Part II] by Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1754
The Social Contract [Book I, Sections 1, 3, 6] by Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1762
A Bill Establishing A Provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion by Patrick Henry	1784
Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments by James Madison	1785
The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom by Thomas Jefferson	1786
Federalist Paper No. 10 by James Madison	1787
Federalist Paper No. 48 by James Madison	1788
Federalist Paper No. 51 by Alexander Hamilton or James Madison	1788
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793	1793
Typee  [Chapter 17] by Herman Melville	1846
Resistance to Civil Government by Henry David Thoreau	1849
Fugitive Slave Law of 1850	1850
Leaves of Grass [ Preface] by Walt Whitman	1855
Song of Myself [from Leaves of Grass] by Walt Whitman	1855
The Issue Fairly Presented: The Senate Bill for the Admission of Kansas as a State by the Democratic National Committee	1856
John Brown’s Last Speech	1859
South Carolina Ordinance Of Secession	1860
John Brown's Body Lies A-Mouldering in the Grave [lyrics]	1861
[The Patriot Act] H.R.3162	2001

 

For further research, consult the following online collections of primary texts pertinent to founding principles of American democracy:

Library of Congress – Primary Documents in American History

Library of Congress – American Memory

Constitution Society

Civics Online

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

Lonang Institute

Project Gutenberg

The Founders Constitution

Territorial Kansas Online

Google Book Search 

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