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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction by Nicholas Lemann
QUESTION 1: Citizenship: Who Are “We the People”?
George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island
Frederick Douglass: from What to the Slave is the 4th of July?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Solitude of Self
Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech in the Senate on Immigration
Randolph S. Bourne: Trans-National America
QUESTION 2: Equality: How Can It Be Achieved?
Horace Mann: from Twelfth Annual Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education
Abraham Lincoln: Speech to the 166th Ohio Regiment
Jane Addams: from The Subtle Problems of Charity
W.E.B. Du Bois: from Black Reconstruction
QUESTION 3: A More Perfect Union: What Is the Government For?
James Madison: The Federalist No. 51
John Marshall: from Opinion for the Court in McCulloch v. Maryland
Alexis de Tocqueville: from Democracy in America
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address to the Commonwealth Club of California
Paul Nitze et al.: from NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security
QUESTION 4: The Power of Money: How to Control It?
Andrew Jackson: from Veto of the Bank Charter
Carl Schurz: from Address on Civil Service Reform
Theodore Roosevelt: The New Nationalism
John Paul Stevens: from Dissent in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
QUESTION 5: Protest: Can We Disobey the Law?
Henry David Thoreau: from Civil Disobedience
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Hannah Arendt: from Civil Disobedience
Sources and Acknowledgments
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