Readings in American Political Thought

 

Many of the reading you will need for Posc 385 can be found below.  Simply click on the desired readings below.  You may want to print a copy to bring to class.

 

LOCALISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Calhoun’s Disquisition on Government (Concurrent Majorities doctrine)

State’s Rights Manifesto (Dixiecrats)

US vs. Printz

US vs. Morrison

US vs. Lopez

 

 

EGALITARIANISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT

Jackson’s Veto Message (The National Bank)

Brown vs. The Board of Education

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

 

 

INDIVIDUALISM

Frontier Thesis (Fredrick Jackson Turner)

 

PROTECTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

Lochner vs. New York (1905)

 

FEDERALIST PAPERS

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