BASIC READINGS IN U.S. DEMOCRACY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART I: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776)

  1. The Declaration of Independence

PART II: CREATING A GOVERNMENT

  1. The Mayflower Compact (1620)
  2. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
  3. Albany Plain of Union (1754)
  4. The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
  5. Constitution of the United States (1787)
  6. James Madison, The Federalist No. 10 (1787)
  7. The Judiciary Act of 1789
  8. Marbury v. Madison (1803)
  9. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

    PART III: THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN SOCIETY

    1. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural (1801)
    2. Black Hawk, Surrender Speech (1832)
    3. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835)
    4. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841)
    5. Dorothea Dix, Memorial to the Massachusetts Legislature (1843)
    6. Horace Mann, Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board (1848)
    7. Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)

    PART IV: THE CRISIS OF THE UNION

    1. American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sentiments (1833)
    2. Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (1846)
    3. Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855)
    4. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
    5. Abraham Lincoln, "A House Divided" (1858)
    6. Sullivan Ballou, Letter to His Wife (1861)
    7. Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
    8. Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
    9. Ex parte Milligan (1866)

    PART V: INDUSTRIAL AMERICA

    1. Morrill Act (1862)
    2. Pendleton Act (1883)
    3. People's Party Platform (1896)
    4. Muller v. Oregon (1908)
    5. Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (1910)
    6. Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural (1913)

    PART VI: ON THE ROAD FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM

    1. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
    2. Harlan Fiske Stone, Carolene Products Footnote (1938)
    3. Harry S. Truman, Executive 9981 (1948)
    4. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
    5. Cooper v. Aaron (1958)
    6. Martin Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream" (1963)
    7. Civil Rights Act (1964)
    8. Lyndon B. Johnson, "The American Promise" (1965)
    9. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)

    PART VII: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

    1. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
    2. Abrams v, United States (1919)
    3. Whitney v. California (1927)
    4. Near v. Minnesota (1931)
    5. West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
    6. Engel v. Vitale (1962)
    7. New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

    PART VIII: FACING THE WORLD

    1. George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
    2. The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
    3. Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points Speech (1918)
    4. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address at Charlottesville (1940)
    5. The Atlantic Charter (1941)
    6. Foreign Aid and Human Rights (1976)
    7. Jimmy Carter, Human Rights and Foreign Policy (1977)
    8. Sanctions Against South Africa (1986)

    PART IX: COLD WAR ISSUES

    1. The Marshall Plan (1947)
    2. Recall of Gen. Douglas MacArthur (1951)
    3. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
    4. Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
    5. Democracy and Foreign Policy (1990)

    PART X: A MORE INCLUSIVE AMERICA

    1. Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
    2. Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (1883)
    3. Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
    4. Korematsu v. United States (1944)
    5. John F. Kennedy, Address to Southern Baptist Leaders (1960)
    6. Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
    7. Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
    8. NOW Statement of Purpose (1966)
    9. Clyde Warrior, "We Are Not Free" (1967)
    10. Maya Angelou, "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993)

    PART XI: CONTINUING VITALITY

    1. United States v. Nixon (1974)
    2. Excerpts from Presidential Debates (1992)

    PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Maya Angelou. "On the Pulse of the Morning" from the book On the Pulse of the Morning by Maya Angelou. Copyright (c) 1993 by Maya Angelou. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

    Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" reprinted by arrangement with The Heirs to the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr., c/o Joan Daves Agency as agent for the proprietor. Copyright (c) 1963 by the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. Copyright renewed 1991 by Coretta Scott King.

    Clyde Warrior. "We Are Not Free" by Clyde Warrior reprinted from Red Power, The American Indians' Fight for Freedom by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. Copyright (c) 1971 by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. Permission granted by Julian Bach Literary Agency.