Essential Viewing

Essential Reading - Part 1 Give me liberty or give me death! Declaration of Independence Articles of Confederation The Constitution of the United States Bill of Rights George Washington's Farewell Address Constitutional Amendments Northwest Ordinance The Law A Humbling Lesson

Essential Reading - Part 2 Back to Basics A Republic, If You Can Keep It God, Man, and Government America's Founding Ideals Congress and the Constitution Republics and Democracies Judicial Usurpation How Tyranny Came to America Restoring Liberty to America Constitutionalism 101

Constitutional Courses Institute on the Constitution: Foundation Course  Institute on the Constitution: Advanced Course

Advanced Reading

Lex Rex (Law Is King, or The Law and the Prince), Rev. Samuel Rutherford (1644) 
On The Duty of Man and Citizen According to the Natural Law, Samuel von Pufendorf (1673) 
Two Treatises of Government, John Locke (1680-1690) 
The Principles of Natural Law and The Principles of Politic Law, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui (1748) 
The Spirit of Laws, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1751) 
The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law, Emmerich de Vattel (1758) 
Commentaries on the Laws of England, Sir William Blackstone (1765-1769) 
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention, James Madison (1787) 
The Federalist Papers, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (1787-88) 
Anti-Federalist Papers, Centinel, Federal Farmer, Brutus, John DeWitt, Cato, etc. (1787-1788) 
Timeline of the Federalist-Antifederalist Debate 
The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution