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Background Information for the Constitution

 

  
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Background Information and Readings for the Constitution of the United States of America

 

Plato (428-348 BCE)
Selections from The Republic

Questions

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)
Selections from Politics

Questions

Cicero (106-43 BCE)
Selections from The Republic and The Laws

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Selections from Leviathan

John Locke (1632-1704)
Selections from The Second Treatise of Government

Blackstone
Commentaries on the Laws

Thomas Jefferson
Declaration

 

Constitution Making:

James Madison
The Constitution

"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes

 

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