An American Birthday Gift

Subject: An American Birthday Gift
From: Amos
Date: 05 Jul 01 - 10:01 PM

I've made it clear that I think the small handful of ideas behind the American Constitution, Declaration of Independance and Bill of Rights are not only still very alive but incredibly valuable to our species in defining its destiny.

I can offer all my friends nothing richher than the following links, which lead to the voices of those who raised those ideas, brought them forward and kept them alive during that critical period. The following is a re-post of material from an e-letter which focuses on freedom-related issues called Freedom News (see first link).

Warmest regards to all Mudcatters everywhere,

Amos

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 Freedom News in today's update:
  o America in rebellion
  o Articles of Confederation
  o United States Constitution
  o Federalist papers
  o Anti-federalist papers
  o The war inevitable
  o Common Sense
  o The Rights of Man
  o The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
  o Brief biography: John Locke (1632-1704)
  o Democracy in America
  o Libertystory.net

Today we're doing something a little different in honor of U.S.
Independence Day. For those of you within the United States, we wish you a
happy Fourth of July. For those outside the U.S., we hope that you'll join
us for a celebration of liberty.

yours,
J.D. Tuccille
 

America in rebellion (Declaration of Independence)
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   With this document, rebellious American colonists declared
   their independence from the British government and announced
   plans to create a new and free nation. (07/04/1776)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/declar.html
 

Articles of Confederation
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   The first governing document for the newly independent
   United States.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/artconf.htm
 

United States Constitution
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   The text of the current governing document of the
   United States of America, including all amendments.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/usconst.htm
 

Federalist papers
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   Arguments penned by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay
   and James Madison in favor of the adoption of the
   Constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation.
   (1787-1789)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/federal/fed.htm
 

Anti-federalist papers
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   Arguments against the proposed Constitution, arguing
   that it provided for too centralized a government and
   contained the seeds of tyranny.
   (1787-1789)
http://www.constitution.org/afp/afp.htm
 

The war inevitable
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by Patrick Henry
   Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" speech to
   the 1775 Virginia Convention. (03/23/1775)
http://www.webleyweb.com/klh/pathenry.html
 

Common Sense
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by Thomas Paine
   Full text of the book that inspired the
   Declaration of Independence and fueled the
   American revolution. (1776)
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/paine/CM/sensexx.htm
 

The Rights of Man
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by Thomas Paine
   Paine's defense of individual liberty. As always,
   Paine is quick to make valuable suggestions for
   proper government.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/paine/ROM/rofmxx.htm
 

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
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   The collected writings of the often-libertarian
   author of the Declaration of Independence.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/jeffpap.htm
 

Brief biography: John Locke (1632-1704)
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   John Locke's influence on modern views of liberty
   is profound, including providing much of the
   philosophical influence for the American Revolution.
http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/00sep_oct/liberaltradition.html
 

Democracy in America
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by Alexis de Tocqueville
   The full text of the classic 19th-century analysis by
   an observant French aristocrat of the culture and people
   of the American republic and the potential threat to
   liberty posed by too much democracy.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/toc_indx.html
 

Libertystory.net
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by Jim Powell
   A companion site to Jim Powell's wonderful book,
   "The Triumph of Liberty," this site stands on its
   own as probably the best single introduction to the
   history of liberty online.
http://www.libertystory.net/
 

Subject: RE: An American Birthday Gift
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 05 Jul 01 - 11:47 PM

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States stand out as probably the two single most important documents in the history of the world, even more so than the Declaration of Arbroath, or Magna Carta.

Nit-picking, I know, but it is a pity that such an august body as Yale Law School should see fit to annotate these historic masterpieces using such gross misspellings as "supercede", and "harrassed". No excuses for typos here.

Murray

Subject: RE: An American Birthday Gift
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Jul 01 - 11:57 PM

Geez Amos....An EXCELLENT series of links!!! Many thanks and regardless of Murray's nit-picks, I too find them fascinating and awe-inspiring works.

Spaw

Subject: RE: An American Birthday Gift
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 11:58 AM

Spaw, the documents are faultless, the spelling errors were made in the annotations by some spotty computer geek in the Yale Law School

Murray

Subject: RE: An American Birthday Gift
From: UB Ed
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 12:02 PM

Amos, fantastic links! This thread will be traced!

Subject: RE: An American Birthday Gift
From: jeffp
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 12:10 PM

Amos, thank you for that wonderful collection of links.

jeffp

Subject: RE: An American Birthday Gift
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:08 PM

Indeed. No matter whe'er I roam, in my heart there's a spot for the US...

Subject: RE: An American Birthday Gift
From: DougR
Date: 06 Jul 01 - 05:42 PM

Great, Amos, Thanks!