American Civil Society : A Book of Questions and Readings

by Spaulding, Jay L.

• ISBN13: 9780072545982
• ISBN10: 0072545984
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-08-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Table of Contents

Exodus 20

The Doctrine of the Mean, Confucius

Perfect Virtue, Confucius

Politics, Aristotle

The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli

Native Americans: Nation v. Tribe?

A Witch Trial at Mount Holly, Benjamin Franklin

The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rosseau

Exerpts on Education from Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia

The Federalist No. 10, James Madison

Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau

Emancipation Proclamation, 1863

The Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln

Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy, Mark Twain

The Solitude of Self, 1982, Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Espionage Act of May 16, 1918

Schenck v. U.S.

Sacco and Vanzetti

Buck v. Bell

Three Articles About the Rosenbergs

Brown v. Board of Education

Mapp v. Ohio

I have a Dream, Martin Luther King

Loving v. Virginia

Soldier's Memories of Vietnam, 1968

The War That Has No Ending

Roe v. Wade, Justice Blackmun

United States v. Nixon, Chief Justice Burger

Excerpts from the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

The Race Problem

Voting and Participation

Olmstead v. United States

The Internet and Free Expression, Reno v. ACLU

Their Care of the Sick and Euthanasia, Thomas More

Oregon's Death with Dignity Act

Appendix 1: Selected Internet Sites