The American Republic: Primary Sources

by Frohnen, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780865973329
• ISBN10: 0865973326
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Liberty Fund

Summary

The American Republic provides, in a single volume, critical, original documents revealing the character of American discourse on the nature and importance of local government, the purposes of federal union, and the role of religion and tradition in forming America's drive for liberty.

Author Biography

Bruce Frohnen is assistant professor of law at the Ave Maria School of Law in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Table of Contents

Alphabetical Table of Contents	xi
Alphabetical List of Authors	xiii
List of Illustrations	xv
Introduction	xvii
Note on the Texts	xxi
Colonial Settlements and Societies
Virginia Articles, Laws, and Orders, 1610-11	4	(7)
The Mayflower Compact, 1620	11	(1)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639	12	(3)
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641	15	(8)
Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government of the Province of Pennsylvania in America, 1682	23	(8)
Dorchester Agreement, 1633	31	(1)
Maryland Act for Swearing Allegiance, 1638; Plymouth Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity, 1625	32	(2)
``Little Speech on Liberty,''	34	(2)
John Winthrop
``Copy of a Letter from Mr. Cotton to Lord Say and Seal,''	36	(6)
John Cotton
Religious Society and Religious Liberty in Early America
``The Bloody Tenent, of persecution, for Cause of Conscience,''	42	(6)
Roger Williams
``A Platform of Church Discipline,''	48	(16)
John Cotton
Richard Mather
Ralph Partridge
Providence Agreement, 1637; Maryland Act for Church Liberties, 1638; Pennsylvania Act for Freedom of Conscience, 1682	64	(2)
Worcestriensis, 1776	66	(3)
``Thanksgiving Proclamation'' and Letters to Religious Association, George Washington; 1789, 1790	69	(3)
``Farewell Address,'' George Washington, 1796	72	(7)
``The Rights of Conscience Inalienable,''	79	(9)
John Leland
``Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association,''	88	(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Defending the Charters
Magna Charta, 1215	92	(6)
Petition of Right, 1628	98	(3)
``An Account of the Late Revolution in New England'' and ``Boston Declaration of Grievances,''	101	(5)
Nathanael Blyfield
The English Bill of Rights, 1689	106	(4)
The Stamp Act, 1765	110	(5)
``Braintree Instructions,''	115	(2)
John Adams
Resolutions of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1765; Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765	117	(2)
``The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved,''	119	(16)
James Otis
The Act Repealing the Stamp Act, 1766; The Declaratory Act, 1766	135	(5)
The War for Independence
``A Discourse at the Dedication of the Tree of Liberty,'' ``A Son Of Liberty''	140	(6)
Silas Downer
``Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania,'' Letters V and IX	146	(8)
John Dickinson
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774	154	(3)
Virginia Bill of Rights, 1776	157	(2)
``On Civil Liberty, Passive Obedience, and Non-resistance,''	159	(20)
Jonathan Boucher
Common Sense	179	(10)
Thomas Paine
The Declaration of Independence, 1776	189	(7)
A New Constitution
``Thoughts On Government,''	196	(4)
John Adams
Articles of Confederation, 1778	200	(5)
The Essex Result, 1778	205	(20)
Northwest Ordinance, 1787	225	(4)
Albany Plan of Union, 1754	229	(2)
Virginia and New Jersey Plans, 1787	231	(3)
The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787	234	(7)
The Federalist Papers 1, 9, 10, 39, 47--51, 78	241	(27)
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Ray
``Address of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention,'' 1787	268	(13)
``An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution,''	281	(19)
Noah Webster
The Bill of Rights
The Federalist, Papers 84 and 85	300	(9)
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Ray
``Letter I,'' ``Centinel,'' 1787	309	(5)
``Essay I,'' ``Brutus,'' 1787	314	(6)
``Letter III,'' ``The Federal Farmer,'' 1787	320	(7)
``Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments,''; ``Virginia Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom,''	327	(5)
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
``Speech Introducing Proposed Constitutional Amendments,''; Debate Over First Amendment Language, 1789; The First Ten Amendments to the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights, 1789	332	(19)
James Madison
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States	351	(12)
Joseph Story
The People v. Ruggles	363	(3)
James Kent
Marbury v. Madison	366	(9)
John Marshall
Barron v. the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore	375	(7)
John Marshall
State versus Federal Authority
``Essay V,'' ``Brutus,'' 1787	382	(4)
Chisholm v. Georgia; U.S. Constitution, Eleventh Amendment, 1787	386	(1)
James Wilson
The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798; Virginia Resolutions, 1798; Kentucky Resolutions, 1798; Counter-resolutions of Other States, 1799; Report of Virginia House of Delegates, 1799	386	(47)
``The Duty of Americans, at the Present Crisis,''	433	(14)
Timothy Dwight
Report of the Hartford Convention, 1815	447	(11)
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833; A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States, 1840	458	(16)
Joseph Story
Forging a Nation
``Opinion against the Constitutionality of a National Bank,'' Thomas Jefferson, 1791; ``Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States,''	474	(17)
Alexander Hamilton
``Veto Message,''	491	(10)
Andrew Jackson
``Veto Message,''	501	(2)
James Madison
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States	503	(15)
Joseph Story
``Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois,'' 1838; ``Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,'' 1859	518	(10)
Abraham Lincoln
Newspaper Editorials on ``Direct Taxation,'' 1834; ``Chief Justice Marshall,'' 1835; ``The Despotism of the Majority,'' 1837; ``Morals of Legislation,'' 1837; and ``The Morals of politics,'' 1837	528	(8)
William Leggett
``Speech On Electioneering,''	536	(2)
Davy Crockett
``Speech before the U.S. Senate,'' Daniel Webster, 1830; ``Speech before the U.S. Senate,''	538	(27)
Robert Y. Hayne
``Fort Hill Address,''	565	(17)
John C. Calhoun
Prelude to War
Laws Regulating Servants and Slaves, 1630--1852	582	(7)
``Slavery'' and ``Agriculture and the Militia,''	589	(5)
John Taylor
The Missouri Compromise, 1820--21	594	(1)
Newspaper Editorials on ``Governor McDuffie's Message,'' 1835; ``The Question of Slavery Narrowed to a Point,'' 1837; and ```Abolition Insolence,''' 1837	595	(5)
William Leggett
Senate Speeches on the Compromise of 1850	600	(33)
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Second Fugitive Slave Law, 1850; Ableman v. Booth	633	(13)
Roger Taney
Scott v. Sandford	646	(44)
Roger Taney
``The Relative Position and Treatment of the Negroes'' and ``The Abolitionists---Consistency of Their Labors,''	690	(1)
George S. Sawyer
``What Is Slavery?'' and ``Slavery Is Despotism,''	690	(12)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1856; Fifth Lincoln-Douglas Debate, 1858	702	(21)
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