Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Liberty and Equality: The American Ideas
-Declaration of Independence
-Slavery Paragraph from Thomas Jefferson’s Draft
-Thomas Jefferson to Roger Weightman
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Author’s Introduction to Volume I, Part 1
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 1
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 4
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 4, Chapter 1
Peter S. Onuf, Jefferson and Tocqueville on Liberty and Equality
2. Liberty, Equality, and Constitutional Principles
-Section 1. Representation and Demcracy
-Publius, Federalist 10
-Publius, Federalist 39 (First Half)
-Publius, Federalist 57
-Thomas Jefferson to James Madison
-Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 4
-Toqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 5
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 3, Chapter 12
-Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Economic Bill of Rights”
Ralph Ketcham, Representation and Democracy
-Section 2. Federalism
-Publius, Federalist 14
-Publius, Federalist 15
-Publius, Federalist 37
-Publius, Federalist 39 (Second Half)
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America Volume I, Part 1, Chapter 8
Alan Gibson and James H. Read, Madisonian Federalism and the American Conversation on Liberty and Equality
Section 3. Separation of Powers
-Publius, Federalist 47
-Publius, Federalist 51
-Publius, Federalist 71
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 8
Michael P. Zuckert, The Separation of Powers
3. Liberty, Equality, and Religion
-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity”
-James Madison, “Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments”
-George Washington, Letter to Annual Meeting of Quakers
-Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Danbury Baptists
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume I, Part 2, Chapter 9
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 2, Chapter 15
-Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume II, Part 1, Chapter 5
Wilfred M. McClay, On Religious Liberty and Its Special Status in American Life
4. Liberty, Equality, and Race
-Alexander Hamilton to John Jay
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
-Publius, Federalist 54
-James Madison, Memorandum on an African Colony for Freed Slaves
-Tocqueville, Democracy in American, Volume I, Part 2, Chapter 10
-William Lloyd Garrison, On the Constitution and the Union
-Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July!”
-Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debate: Alton, Illinois
Peter C. Myers, Liberty, Equality, and Race in America’s Republican Experiment
About the Contributors
Notes
-Index
