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(360 B.C.) The Republic - Plato
(46 B.C.) Cicero's Brutus - Cicero
(1517) Discourses on Livy - Machiavelli
(1553) The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude - Étienne de La Boétie
(1690) Two Treatises of Government - Locke
(1698) Discourses Concerning Government - Algernon Sydney
Sidney's Discourses and Locke's Second Treatise were recommended by Jefferson and Madison as containing the "general principles of liberty and the rights of man, in nature and society"
(1748) The Spirit of Laws - Montesquieu
(1748) The Principles of Natural and Politic Law - Burlamaqui
(1758) The Law of Nations - Vattel
(1764-1769) The Writings of Samuel Adams
(1765-1769) Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
(1766) The Declaratory Act
(1770) The Writings of John Adams V1-2
The Writings of John Adams V3-4
The Writings of John Adams V5-7
The Writings of John Adams V8-10
(1771-1788) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
(1772) The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants
(1774) Novanglus - John Adams. The Principle Controversy between Great Britain and Her Colonies
(1776) Common Sense - Thomas Paine
The pamphlet Common Sense appeared on the very day that the King of England's speech reached the United States, in which the Americans were denounced as rebels and traitors, and in which speech it was asserted to be the right of the legislature of England to bind the Colonies in all cases whatsoever.
(1776-1783) The Crisis - Thomas Paine
(1780) Journal of the Convention for Framing the Massachusetts Bay Constitution
(1787) The Anti-Federalist (audio)
(1787) The Federalist (text) The Federalist (audio)
(1781-1826) The Declaration of Independence and Letters by Thomas Jefferson
(1788) The Debates in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Virginia
on the adoption of the Federal Constitution
(1788) Speech delivered at the Virginia Convention debate of the ratification of the Constitution - Patrick Henry
(1789) James Madison Speech to the First Congress - Madison's proposed Amendments to the Constitution
(1791-92) The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
(1792) A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal - Thomas Paine
(1792) Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of America - James Wilson, Thomas McKean
As far as I know this is the first legal treatise written on the subject of the U.S. Constitution.
(1794-95) Age of Reason Pt. I, II and III - Thomas Paine
(1796) Washington's Farewell Address
(1800) The Origin and Principles of the America and French Revolutions Compared
(1804) The Works of the Honourable James Wilson - Wilson signed the DoI and the federal Constitution, appointed to the Supreme Court by Washington
(1805) The Dangers of American Liberty - Fisher Ames
(1820) The Republican Part I & II Part III - Wiliam Jarvis
“I thank you, Sir, for the copy of your Republican which you have been so kind as to send me… looking over it cursorily I see much in it to approve, and shall be glad if it shall lead our youth to the practice of thinking on such subjects and for themselves…” Thomas Jefferson
(1820) Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated - John Taylor
(1823) New Views of the Constitution of the United States - John Taylor of Caroline
(1829) The annals of America - Abiel Holmes
From the Discovery to the year 1826
(1830) The Letters of Algernon Sydney, In Defense of Civil Liberty - Judge Spencer Roane's letters to the Richmond Enquirer, 1818-19
(1831) Essays on the American System, its Principle and Object - Spencer Roane
(1833) Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States - Joseph Story
* [see 1868 - A Brief Inquiry....]
(1835) Democracy in America - Volume I - de Tocqueville
(1837) Introduction to American law - Designed as a First Book for Students
(1839) The Jubilee of the Constitution: A Discourse - John Quincy Adams
(1840) Democracy in America - Volume II - de Tocqueville
(1849) On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - H.D. Thoreau
(1850) The Law - Frederick Bastiat
(1859) The Government Class Book - Designed for the Instruction of Youth
(1860) Diary of the American Revolution. From Newspapers and Original Documents - Frank Moore
(1861) Ancient Law, its connection with the early history of society and its relation to modern ideas - Sir Henry Sumner Maine
(1861) Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville, 2 vols.
(1862) Considerations on Representative Government - John Stuart Mill
* (published 1868) A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Character of our Federal Government - Judge Abel Upshur (highly recommended reading - Frog )
A critical review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.
(1872) A Manual of American Ideas - DESIGNED For the Use of Schools, For the Instruction of Foreigners seeking Naturalization and For the Use of Voters
(1875) History of the United States of America: - George Bancroft
History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent
covers America in depth up to 1789.
(1883) Social Statics - Herbert Spencer
(1885) Popular Government - Sir Henry Sumner Maine
(1888) The American Commonwealth, 2 vols. - James Bryce
(1889) The Old South Leaflets Seventh Series
The Old South Lectures for Young People were instituted in the summer of 1883, as a means of promoting a more serious and intelligent attention to historical studies, especially studies in American history, among the young people of Boston.
(1890) The Unwritten Constitution of the United States- Christopher Tiedeman
(1890) Life of the Hon. Thomas McKean - Roberdeau Buchanan
(1891) The Theory of the Social Compact and its Influence upon the American Revolution
(published 1891) A Fragment on Government - Jeremy Bentham (first published in 1776)
(1892) Essays on the Constitution of the United States, published during its discussion by the people 1787-1788 - Paul L. Ford
(1894) Sources of the Constitution of the United States - C. Ellis Stevens
(published 1903) The Complete ANAS of Thomas Jefferson
(1905) The John P. Branch historical papers of Randolph-Macon College- Collected works of Judge S. Roane
(1908) The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught
(1963) Burke, Paine, and the Rights of Man - R.R. Fennessy
(1981) 5000 YEAR LEAP - AUDIO VERSION
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The Georgia Guidestones is a large granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. A message clearly conveying a set of ten guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient languages' scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The structure is sometimes referred to as an "American Stonehenge".[1] The monument is 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall, made from six granite slabs weighing 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg) in all.[2] One slab stands in the center, with four arranged around it. A capstone lies on top of the five slabs, which are astronomically aligned. An additional stone tablet, which is set in the ground a short distance to the west of the structure, provides some notes on the history and purpose of the Guidestones.
A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.
..........but tomorrow is Tuesday ;)
I am pretty sure that between the fluoride in the water, aspartame in too many things to list, chem trails in the air, processed foods with corn syrup and "natural flavors" and all kinds of numbered food dyes, vaccines, and the school system telling us our kids are all mentally challenged so we drug them and the MD's tell adults the need phyco drugs because they are nervous or just depressed, the delta waves from TV mind controlling us and telling us what to be afraid of and what we like and don't like. Who is good and who is bad, what is good and what is bad ~ moms and dads can't make there kids a school lunch because they are just not smart enough to do it right so that it won't offend any other kid at school~ or maybe its just that we stopped caring somewhere along the way ~ we forgot to be vigilant of freedom and trusted a government to do the right things forgetting that the enemy within is the one to fear so as we slept we were poisoned in body mind and soul and left the gate unguarded so now we all are paying the price of a soldier who slept while on duty and now you know why they are shot in times of war ~~ we may want peace but its a hard sell when the ones we trusted have waged war with the whole world and want you to pay for it and if you do not !! well may god have mercy on your soul if you don't you will be branded a traitor and a zelot that society needs to fear for the jack booted thugs who have replaced the republic by force have made you oh sleeper the new enemy of the EMPIRE ~
Good post Larry ~ The name of his post is the election that spawned a revolution ~ Obama came in with "hope and change" he will leave having been the spark of a revolution and maybe that was the plan all along .. ;)
“CORPORATIVISM IN MONEY AND BANKING HAS LED AMERICA TO FASCISM”
http://devvy.net/pdf2/august2012/cmre_address_may_2012.pdf
Treaties Do Not Supersede the Constitution
(although the case for the supremacy of the Constitution could be presented much more thoroughly, this is short and to the point)
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/staterights/treaties.htm
How Leftist law has hijacked the U.S. constitution
Each September, the assumptions and methodologies of law-school curricula are handed down as if from Sinai to tens of thousands of 1Ls. They are readily accepted by the students, who are under enormous pressure to assimilate and adjust to them quickly. Students are told nothing of progressive philosophy’s origins or ultimate purposes, and notice little of its hostility to the Founders’ Constitution. Such lack of awareness is evident even among many law-school faculty members, who act as Moses without self-knowledge, sensible only of the first commandment.
For those with the passion to rule — which describes most bright twentysomethings — such a sensibility is very useful. They see themselves doing God’s work, or something like it, for they do at least know that God is banished from the public square. In his recent book Schools for Misrule, Walter Olson recounts how the dean of one of the nation’s most prestigious law schools routinely greeted incoming students by welcoming them to “the republic of conscience.”
Of course, it’s a conscience to be imposed by the cognoscenti, through the mechanism of the courts, on the unwashed masses
who still conceive of politics as something to be done the old-fashioned way, i.e., consensually. What the students quickly imbibe in the law schools is uniquely well suited to breaking the constraints imposed by self-government and the Constitution.
The modern law school came into existence largely as an adjunct of progressive ideology. It was to be the training ground for progressives dedicated to overcoming early-20th-century judicial resistance to the political assault on our Constitution of limited and enumerated powers. As with the modern discipline of political science, the modern law school was built around core progressive assumptions: a philosophy of history, a faith in the power of scientific intelligence to smooth the movement of history, and a deep suspicion of existing institutional forms.
By the 1920s, leading legal scholars were confident they had discovered a new science of jurisprudence — one that would emphasize evolutionary growth rather than black-letter law or theories of law rooted in the permanent nature of human beings. This melding of social Darwinism and philosophical pragmatism animated the growing legal professoriate to direct its attention to processes, functions, and change more than principles, rules, and continuity. The new approach to the study of law had many manifestations. It defined the aspirations of important legal movements such as sociological jurisprudence and legal realism, which sought to ensure, respectively, that legal interpretation would be informed by social data, and that legal outcomes would be determined by perceived social benefits rather than the strict construction of law. The old-fashioned common lawyer was out, to be replaced by a progressive social engineer with legal training.
More here: http://dissectleft.blogspot.com/ (scroll down the page)
True enough, Troy.
By section 4, article I, the Congress are authorized, at any time, by law, to make, or alter, regulations respecting the time, place, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, except as to the places of choosing senators. By this clause the right of election itself, is, in a great measure, transferred from the people to their rulers. — One would think, that if any thing was necessary to be made a fundamental article of the original compact, it would be, that of fixing the branches of the legislature, so as to put it out of its power to alter itself by modifying the election of its own members at will and pleasure. When a people once resign the privilege of a fair election, they clearly have none left worth contending for.
Had the power of regulating elections been left under the direction of the state legislatures, where the people are not only nominally but substantially represented, it would have been secure; but if it was taken out of their hands, it surely ought to have been fixed on such a basis as to have put it out of the power of the foederal legislature to deprive the people of it by law. Provision should have been made for marking out the states into districts, and for choosing, by a majority of votes, a person out of each of them of permanent property and residence in the district which he was to represent.
If the people of America will submit to a constitution that will vest in the
hands of any body of men a right to deprive them by law of the privilege of a fair election, they will submit to almost any thing. Reasoning with them will be in vain, they must be left until they are brought to reflection by feeling oppression — they will then have to wrest from their oppressors, by a strong hand. that which they now possess, and which they may retain if they will exercise but a moderate share of prudence and firmness.
http://www.constitution.org/afp/brutus04.htm
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