1/19   INTRODUCTION AND COLONIAL AMERICA

                            FIRST CLASS IS WEDNESDAY

Blackboard: Foner, Ch. 1 

Web Doc: Locke, Second Treatise on Government /  Document Questions for Discussion

                             Web Doc: “Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)”

1/26      REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA AND ROAD TO THE CONSTITUTION

                                Web Doc: John Adams, Thoughts on Government / Questions for Discussion

                                Web Doc: U.S. Constitution /  Bill of Rights / combined version

                                Web Doc: Pro- and Anti-Federalist Papers:

                                        Each member of the group must turn in a 2-page, typewritten analysis of the document in class.

                                        Group 1:  Federalist #10                           Group 2:  Brutus #1

                                        Group 3:  Federalist #51 and #49            Group 4: Letter from Farmer #1/and #2

                                        Group 5:  Federalist #39                           Group 6:  Centinel #1

                                        Group 7:  Federalist #78                           Group 8: Patrick Henry Speech

2/2      DEFINING THE REPUBLIC    

                               Web Doc: Jefferson: Opinion Against the National Bank

                                Web Doc: Hamilton: Opinion Sustaining the National Bank

                                Urofsky: Ch. 1-2

                                Web Doc: Marbury v. Madison

                                Web Doc: McCulloch v. Maryland

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2/9      THE MARKET REVOLUTION AND THE CONSTITUTION 

                                Urofksy, Ch. 3

                               Web Doc: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge