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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Justin P. DePlato - With Kyle Hodge Klappentext This book is a comprehensive collection of historic political thought. From the political philosophies of classical and renaissance thinkers to the speeches of American Presidents, it introduces the American Founders' theories of democracy by connecting and analyzing the words of their philosophical forerunners and Presidential successors. Zusammenfassung This book is a comprehensive collection of historic political thought. From the political philosophies of classical and renaissance thinkers to the speeches of American Presidents, it introduces the American Founders’ theories of democracy by connecting and analyzing the words of their philosophical forerunners and Presidential successors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: From Greece to Rome1.Plato - The Republic: Book VIII2.Aristotle - Politics: Book I3.Marcus Tullius Cicero - On the LawsPart Two: Enlightenment 4.Hugo Grotius - On the Law of War and Peace: Book I, Chapter I; Book II Chapters I and II5.Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan: Book I, Chapters 15-206.John Locke - Second Treatise of Civil Government: Chapters 1-157.Montesquieu - The Spirit of the Laws: Book XI8.Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract: Books I and IIPart Three: The American Project9.John Winthrop - A Model of Christian Charity10.William Tennent 11.Thomas Paine - Common Sense 12.Patrick Henry - "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!"13.Benjamin Franklin - Address to the Federal Convention14.Robert Morris 15.Elbridge Gerry - Anti-Federalist Paper #716.George Clinton - Anti-Federalist Paper #6917.Benjamin Rush - An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America Upon Slave-Keeping18.Edmund Randolph - The Virginia Plan19.John Adams - Thoughts on Government20.Alexander Hamilton - Federalist Papers #70 and 7821.Thomas Jefferson - The Tree of Liberty22.James Madison - Federalist Papers #10 and 5123.John C. Calhoun - South Carolina Exposition and Protest24.Frances Wright - Speech at New Harmony HallPart Four: American Presidents25.George Washington - Farewell Address26.Andrew Jackson - National Bank Veto27.James K. Polk - 1st Inaugural Address28.Millard Fillmore - First Annual Message29.Abraham Lincoln - 1st and 2nd Inaugural Address30.William McKinley - 2nd Inaugural Address31.Theodore Roosevelt - 1st Inaugural Address32.Woodrow Wilson - 1st Inaugural Address33.Calvin Coolidge - 1st Inaugural Address34.Herbert Hoover - 1st Inaugural Address35.Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 1st and 2nd Inaugural Address36.John F. Kennedy - 1st Inaugural Address37.Richard Nixon - 1st Inaugural Address38.Ronald Reagan - 1st Inaugural Address...
