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Founding Principles/Essays (Liberty Tree Library) Discussion

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"Let us dare to read, think, speak and write." John Adams

 

(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

 

(1785) Remarks concerning the Government and Laws of the United States of America: in Four Letters addressed to Mr. Adams

 

(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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Comment by Nathan on August 17, 2012 at 6:08pm

BOSTON (AP) -- The U.S. Navy's oldest commissioned warship will sail under its own power for just the second time in more than a century to commemorate the battle that won it the nickname "Old Ironsides."

The USS Constitution, which was first launched in 1797, will be tugged from its berth in Boston Harbor on Sunday to the main deepwater pathway into the harbor. It will then set out to open seas for a 10-minute cruise.

The short trip marks the day two centuries ago when the Constitution bested the British frigate HMS Guerriere in a fierce battle during the War of 1812. It follows a three-year restoration project and is the first time the Constitution has been to sea on its own since its 200th birthday in 1997.

Before that, it hadn't sailed under its own power since 1881. The Constitution is periodically tugged into the harbor for historical display.

more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_USS_CONSTITUTION?SITE=FLT...

Comment by MAC on August 17, 2012 at 1:39pm

Right you are Nathan, they have some good information, plus hear in the US we practice British Law Not Common Law as was originally intended.

we are a long way from what our founders created, screwed up right from the get go

Comment by Nathan on August 17, 2012 at 10:58am

Good info on vid, Mac. His mathmatical skills are lacking just a bit but still, informative.

Comment by MAC on August 17, 2012 at 10:01am

Good history lesson guys

Ahh but a few years later hear comes Lincoln the destroyer of our Republican Republic , you know the guy Obama likens himself after!

Comment by Nathan on August 17, 2012 at 9:20am

Freedom,

Hmm...well, Joseph II was the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire at the time and Louis XVI was king of France so, mad king George's sycophants that drafted those phrases could have called him most high emperor of the world and it would have had the same effect; none.

 

Article 1:
His Brittanic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz., New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, to be free sovereign and independent states, that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs, and successors, relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety, and territorial rights of the same and every part thereof.

 

British troops in the U.S. in 1795...yes, and we went to war over that and a few other matters in 1812. Britain had been in breach of contract since the treaty was signed; I don't think they ever had any intention of honoring the agreement.
And, to be fair, some States were failing to adhere to the treaty as well.

Comment by Freedomrox on August 17, 2012 at 3:56am

Troy, I love you to death and I hope you take that in consideration, when i say....

All of this is bunk. It means nothing. 

It once did, when all of us thought we had some small amount of moral ground to stand upon, but, honestly...we never have. It has all been a tremendous and outrageous lie! With but one document...I can sweep away all of the above research and render it as a non-sequitur. 

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=6&page=transcript

Treaty of Paris-1783

"In the Name of the most Holy & undivided Trinity.

It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the Hearts of the most Serene and most Potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, Arch- Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire etc.. and of the United States of America,"

1. Who is the King of France as so stated in 1783?

2. Who is really speaking here? The Pope or his Arch-Treasurer? 

3. Since when does the supposed loser dictate the terms of surrender?

4. Who is listed as the  Arch- Treasurer and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, and the United States?

5. How is it in 1795, that Britain's Troops are still occupying America?

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/jaytreaty/text....

"His Majesty will withdraw all his troops and garrisons from all posts and places within the boundary lines assigned by the treaty of peace to the United States."

Does this sound like the winner of a war?

I have thousands of examples, and can cite every one, but ask yourself this one question? If His Majesty controlled Britain, and France...then who was fighting and supporting whom?

Comment by peter b dunn on August 17, 2012 at 2:38am

australia and america are and will always be joined at teh hip re intelligence and security  when they hae their act together that is

Comment by Nathan on August 13, 2012 at 12:13am
‘Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.’ - Archimedes
Comment by Swan on August 12, 2012 at 2:47pm

Can I say it....Like WOW Man! Great research! Now all we need is for the right people in the right positions to remove the laws (i.e. legislation) that were written to allow the Central Banks to cohere the politicians to do their bidding and get our country back in the hands of its citizens.  No more career politicians and if an elected politician makes a 180 degree shift on the policies they were to hold, they should be fired for a "no confidence" regards.

Now let us hope that our founding fathers were no in favor of suppressing the absolute truth from its citizens.

I don't mind the Rosicrucian and the Free Masons leading the way with what is True to life, but I cannot take part in the grand master plan of a NWO to down press my fellow brother and sister on this planet.

We must let the Inner City of London, the Vatican and the District of Columbia (i.e. the Ring of Power) know we may have given them the responsibility of managing our government and financial future, but we did not give up our right to freedom for the elected role they play in our lives.

The Great Awakening cannot be stopped.

Comment by Tom A Hawk on August 8, 2012 at 12:15am

Looking forward to reading the material here, sir! Thanks!

 
 
 

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