●i. from colony to constitution: 1620---
●a. colonial mind
●john smith: a description of new england (excerpt) (1616)
●mayflower compact (1620)
●john winthrop: the little speech (excerpt) (1639)
●roger williams: the bloody tenet of persecution, for cause of conscience (excerpt) (1644)
●benjamin franklin: the way to wealth (1757)
●b. making the revolution
●samuel adams: the rights of the colonists (excerpt) (1772)
●patrick henry: give me liberty or give me death (1775)
●thomas jefferson: declaration of independence (1776)
●thomas paine: the american crisis (i) (excerpt) (1777)
●c. american character and thoughts on the constitution
●hector st. john de crevecoeur: letters from an american farmer what is an american (excerpt)(1782)
●james madison: the federalist essays no. 10 (1787)
●george washington: first inaugural address (1789)
●ii. democratic development and cultural formation:1820--1863
●a. development and democracy
●andrew jackson: the majority is to govern (excerpt) (1829)
●alexis de tocqueville: social condition of the anglo-americans(from democracy in america) (1835)
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