Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Liberty and Equality: The American Ideas -- -Declaration of Independence -- -Slavery Paragraph from Thomas Jefferson's Draft -- -Thomas Jefferson to Roger Weightman -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Author's Introduction to Volume I, Part 1 -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 1 -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 4 -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 4, Chapter 1 -- Peter S. Onuf, Jefferson and Tocqueville on Liberty and Equality -- 2. Liberty, Equality, and Constitutional Principles -- -Section 1. Representation and Demcracy -- -Publius, Federalist 10 -- -Publius, Federalist 39 (First Half) -- -Publius, Federalist 57 -- -Thomas Jefferson to James Madison -- -Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 4 -Toqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 5 -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 3, Chapter 12 -- -Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments -- -Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "Economic Bill of Rights" -- Ralph Ketcham, Representation and Democracy -- -Section 2. Federalism -- -Publius, Federalist 14 -- -Publius, Federalist 15 -- -Publius, Federalist 37 -- -Publius, Federalist 39 (Second Half) -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 8 -- Alan Gibson and James H. Read, Madisonian Federalism and the American Conversation on Liberty and Equality -- Section 3. Separation of Powers -- -Publius, Federalist 47 -- -Publius, Federalist 51 -- -Pu8blius, Federalist 71 -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 8 -- Michael P. Zuckert, The Separation of Powers -- 3. Liberty, Equality, and Religion -- -John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity -James Madison, "Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments" -- -George Washington, Letter to Annual Meeting of Quakers -- -Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom -- -Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Danbury Baptists -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 2, Chapter 9 -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 15 -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 1, Chapter 5 -- Wilfred M. McClay, On Religious Liberty and Its Special Status in American Life -- 4. Liberty, Equality, and Race -- -Alexander Hamilton to John Jay -- -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia -- -Publius, Federalist 54 -- -James Madison, Memorandum on an African Colony for Freed Slaves -- -Tocqueville, Democracy in American, Volume I, Part 2, Chapter 10 -- -William Lloyd Garrison, On the Constitution and the Union -- -Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July!" -- -Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Alton, Illinois Peter C. Myers, Liberty, Equality, and Race in America's Republican Experiment -- About the Contributors -- Notes -- -Index.
Summary:
"This book summarizes American history as told through ideas rather than events. Adopting Tocqueville's binary view of America's political tradition--liberty and equality--Seagrave has provided readers with a penetrating analysis of these two core principles in relation to constitutional principles, religion, and race. To underscore that an understanding of the 230-year history of American political thought is crucial to the well-being of our body politic, the work gathers key primary readings and six original essays by notable scholars"-- Provided by publisher.
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