I. The Founding of the Principles of Government 1. The Declaration of Independence (1776) Thomas Jefferson 2. The Meaning of the Declaration of Independence (1857) Abraham Lincoln3. Exchange on State Sovereignty and the Problem of Majority Rule (1858) Stephen A. Douglas and Abraham Lincoln4. The Revolution of Sober Expectations (1975) Martin Diamond 5. The Small Republic Argument (1787) Centinel6. Selections from the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 7. The Work of the Constitutional Convention (1787) James Madison 8. Federalist 10 (1787) James Madison 9. Federalist 51 (1788) James Madison 10. The Role of the Rich and the Poor in the Legislature (1787) John Adams 11. On the Character of the Legislator (1778) Alexander Hamilton 12. Federalist 11 (1787) Alexander Hamilton 13. The Military in a Commercial Republic (1787) Alexander Hamilton14. Equality and Commerce (1840) Alexis de Tocqueville15. On Citizenship (1824, 1816, 1814) Thomas Jefferson 16. Federalist 39 (1788) James Madison 17. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) 18. The Purposes Served by Local Self-Government (1840) Alexis de Tocqueville 19. Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital (1995) Robert D. Putnam20. By the People: The Old Values of the New Citizenship (1994) William A. SchambraII. Political Parties and Elections 21. The Electoral College (1788) Alexander Hamilton 22. Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents (1888) James Bryce23. The Electoral College and the American Idea of Democracy (1977) Martin Diamond 24. Political Parties and Presidential Ambition (1978) James W. Ceaser 25. Buckley v. Valeo (1976) 26. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) 27. Party Politics and the Judiciary: Bush v. Gore and the Election of 2000 (2001) Jeffrey J. Poelvoorde28. The New Republican Party (1977) Ronald Reagan 29. Second Inaugural Address (2013) Barack Obama 30. Popular Leadership and Party Unity: Creating a "Politically Effective Whole" (2013) Mark A. Scully III. Congress and the Separation of Powers31. On Congress (1788) Alexander Hamilton and James Madison 32. The Need for Cabinet Government in the United States (1879) Woodrow Wilson 33. Congress Is Not the Broken Branch (2013) William F. Connelly, Jr. 34. U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995) 35. The Rise of the Washington Establishment (1989) Morris P. Fiorina 36. Deliberation Defended (1994) Joseph M. Bessette 37. War Powers Resolution (1973) 38. INS v. Chadha (1983) IV. The Presidency 39. On the Presidency (1788) Alexander Hamilton 40. The Rise of the Rhetorical Presidency (1981) James W. Ceaser, Glen E. Thurow, Jeffrey K. Tulis, Joseph M. Bessette 41. Campaign Speech on the Presidency (1960) John F. Kennedy 42. On Stem Cell Research (2001) George W. Bush 43. The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions (1838) Abraham Lincoln 44. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952) 45. United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation (1936) 46. Korematsu v. United States (1944) 47. On the Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus (1863) Abraham Lincoln 48. Clinton v. Jones (1997) 49. Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876) Frederick Douglass V. The Judiciary 50. The Role of the Supreme Court (1788) Alexander Hamilton 51. The Problem of Judicial Review (1787) Brutus 52. Against Judicial Review (1815) Thomas Jefferson 53. The Authority of the Supreme Court (1857) Abraham Lincoln54. Marbury v. Madison (1803) 55. Federalist Constitutionalism and Judicial Independence (2013) Matthew S. Brogdon 56. United States v. Nixon (1974) 57. City of Boerne v. Flores (1997) 58. Constitutional Interpretation (1985) William J. Brennan, Jr. 59. Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee (1987) Robert H. Bork 60. Exchange on the Binding of Generations (1789–1790) Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 61. Federalist 49 (1788) James Madison 62. California v. Bakke (1978) 63. The Supreme Court, Affirmative Action, and the Judicial Function (1990) L. Peter Schultz 64. Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) VI. Politics and Economics 65. Capitalism and Freedom (1962) Milton Friedman 66. The New Goals of Politics (1932, 1935, 1941) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 67. Ideology and Supply-Side Economics (1981) Irving Kristol 68. Soft Despotism (1840) Alexis de Tocqueville 69. Against Manufacturing (1787) Thomas Jefferson70. Report on Manufactures (1791) Alexander Hamilton71. Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992) 72. Kelo v. New London (2005) 73. National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012) 74. Regulation and Liberty (2013) Adam M. Carrington VII. Foreign Policy and the American Regime 75. The Moral Basis of International Action (1961) Joseph Cropsey 76. The Mainsprings of American Foreign Policy (1950) Hans J. Morgenthau 77. Selections from Pacificus and Americanus (1793–1794) Alexander Hamilton78. Selections from Helvidius (1793) James Madison 79. Flat but Happy Elections in Kurdish Iraq (2013) James F. Pontuso 80. Remarks on National Security (2009) Barack Obama 81. Remarks on National Security (2009) Richard B. Cheney VIII. Liberty and Equality 82. United States V. Stevens (2010) 83. Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990) 84. Roe v. Wade (1973) 85. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey (1992) 86. Lawrence v. Texas (2003) 87. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 88. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) 89. Bolling v. Sharpe (1954) 90. A Note on the New Equality (1977) Eugene J. McCarthy 91. Harrison Bergeron (1961) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 92. The Natural Aristocracy (1813) Thomas Jefferson93. Why So Many Ambitious Men and So Little Lofty Ambition Are to Be Found in the United States (1840) Alexis de Tocqueville Appendix The Constitution of the United States of America