Liberty, Equality & Modern Constitutionalism,

Volume I of two readers containing essential important works on constitutional liberty and the foundations of modern western political theory. This first volume contains works from Socrates through Thomas Jefferson.

George Anastaplo is a lecturer in the liberal arts at the University of Chicago and professor emeritus of political science and of philosophy at Dominican University. He is the author of numerous books, and he has translated Plato's "Meno" for Focus Publishing, as well as edited two volumes of readings on Liberty.

General Introduction

xi

Classical and Biblical Background

Introduction

1

(2)

The Apology of Socrates

3

(31)

Plato

The Funeral Oration

34

(5)

Pericles

Piety and Statecraft

Liberty and the Bible

39

(3)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, On Christian Liberty

42

(16)

Prayer in the Constitutional Convention of 1787

58

(2)

On Statecraft, Ancient and Modern

Lessons from Rome

60

(12)

Niccolo Machiavelli

Ambition and Order

72

(1)

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 15

72

(1)

Sonnet 29

72

(1)

Act I, Scenes i-ii

72

(4)

King Henry V

Act III, Scene i

76

(5)

Julius Caesar

The Tempest, Act I, Scene i

81

(3)

Sonnet 94

84

(1)

Sonnet 55

84

(1)

The High and the Low

85

(3)

Leo Strauss

1215 and Its Consequences

Introduction

88

(3)

Magna Carta

91

(10)

Areopagitica

101

(28)

John Milton

The Liberty of the English-Speaking Peoples

The Establishment of Genuine Liberty

129

(21)

William Blackstone

On Liberty

150

(5)

John Stuart Mill

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

155

(20)

James Fitzjames Stephen

The New World

The First Charter of Virginia

175

(6)

The Mayflower Compact

181

(1)

The Massachusetts Body of Liberties

182

(13)

The Maryland Toleration Act

195

(3)

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

198

(1)

The Atlantic Charter

199

(1)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

200

(5)

The Illinois Privacy Commission, Final Report

205

(8)

Whose Liberty? Whose Equality?

Introduction

213

(2)

Slavery and Natural Liberty

On the Polis, the Female, and the Natural Slave

215

(6)

Aristotle

Slavery and the Bible

221

(2)

Alexander H. Stephens

On Slavery and the Law of Nations

223

(22)

Hugo Grotius

Man Is Born Free

245

(4)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Somerset's Case

249

(3)

Thoughts Upon Slavery

252

(14)

John Wesley

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

266

(3)

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death

269

(5)

Patrick Henry

Appendix. The Declaration of Independence

274

1776 and Its Consequences

Introduction

The Declaration of Independence

Publius, The Federalist

The Federalist No. 10

The Federalist No. 84

The Federalist No. 85

The Alien and Sedition Acts with Responses by Virginians

The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

The Aliens Act of 1798

The Alien Enemy Act of 1798

The Sedition Act of 1798

The Virginia Resolutions

Resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia

The Report of the Minority on the Virginia Resolutions

The First Inaugural Address

Thomas Jefferson

The Civil War Test

Introduction

Slavery, Abolitionism, and Secession

The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro

Frederick Douglass

On Abolitionist Petitions

John C. Calhoun

South Carolina, The Declaration of Secession

Presidential Statements

Abraham Lincoln

The First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)

Message to Congress in Special Session (July 4, 1861)

The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862)

The Final Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)

The Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)

The Second Inaugural Address (March 4, 1865)

Last Public Address (April 11, 1865)

Civil War Songs

John Brown's Body

The Bonnie Blue Flag

Maryland! My Maryland!

Song of the Mississippi Volunteers

Dixie

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Three Hundred Thousand More

The Battle-Cry of Freedom

Marching Song of the First Arkansas Colored Regiment

Marching Through Georgia

Whose Equality? Whose Liberty?

Introduction

The Material Conditions of Liberty and Equality

Socrates, The City as a Cave

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Information to Those Who Would Remove to America

Benjamin Franklin

Political Freedom Depends Upon Economic Freedom

Milton Friedman

The Marxist Alternatives

Theses on Feuerbach

Karl Marx

Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

Industrial Workers of the World, Statement of Principles

After the Failure of Communism

John Paul II

The Last Man

Friedrich Nietzsche

On American Individualism

Alexis de Tocqueville

Women and the Political Order

The Seneca Falls Declaration on Women's Rights

Women's Christian Temperance Union, Declaration of Principles

Equity for Women in Education (including Athletics)

Abortion and the Law

Harry A. Blackmun

On the Rights of Women as Women

John Paul II

Threats to Liberty, Foreign and Domestic, Real and Imagined

On Removing Indians and Retaining Slaves

Andrew Jackson

The Fourteen Points

Woodrow Wilson

Against Conscription

Charles T. Schenck

The Clear and Present Danger Test

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour

Winston S. Churchill

The Four Freedoms

Franklin D. Roosevelt

War and Morality

A New Moral Order, The True Path to Freedom

Robert M. Hutchins

The Morality of Obliteration Bombing

John C. Ford

On ``Appalling Insinuations''

Lawrence L. McReavy

The Good News of Damnation

Robert M. Hutchins

Wartime Japanese Exclusion and Relocation Measures

Military Areas Prescribed

War Relocation Authority

Civilian Exclusion Order

Moral Relativism and the United States Supreme Court

The Common Law Depends on Authority

All Concepts Are Relative

One Man's Vulgarity is Another Man's Lyric

The ``Iron Curtain'' Speech

Winston S. Churchill

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?

The Censure of the American People by the President of the United States

The Censure of Joseph R. McCarthy by the United States Senate

The Schools Desegregation Decisions

Brown v. Board of Education

Bolling v. Sharpe

Southern Members of Congress on Forced Integration of Schools

Thurgood Marshall, On the Justice of Affirmative Action

Presidential Impeachment Exercises

Andrew Johnson

Richard M. Nixon

William J. Clinton

U.S. Department of Justice, The Nation's Prison Population

We Must Not Be Afraid to be Free

Hugo Lafayette Black

Appendix. The United States Constitution

A. The Constitution of 1787

B. Amendments to the Constitution of 1787 (1791-1992)

C. Constitutional Amendments Proposed by Congress but not Ratified by the States (1789-1978)

Index of Documents, Cases, and Proper Names for Volumes One and Two

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Liberty, Equality & Modern Constitutionalism, Volume I From Socrates & Pericles to Thomas Jefferson

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