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Nothing more enhances authority than silence.
Charles de Gaulle
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the rule of law and democracy
- FreeTheWorld.com
- "committed to bringing economic freedom and growth to all the
countries of the world. The Economic Freedom Network Index, which
ranks 123 countries, is a joint venture involving fifty-five research
institutes in fifty-five countries around the world. The purpose of
the index is to bring the often forgotten topic of economic freedom
into mainstream public debate."
- The Charters of
Freedom - "transcriptions and digitized images of the founding documents
of the American Republic including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the
Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta of 1215, and the Founding Fathers Page, which provides
brief biographies of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention. From the National
Archives.
- The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers rank with the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution itself as basic statements of American democracy and tell us in a unique
fashion what the Founders had in mind as they defined the essence and form of a new
government. No words better describe the birth of our nation. On the web from the Library of
Congress.
The Federalist Papers (Bantam Classic 1989) Buy this from
Amazon.com - paperback
"The Federalist Papers Reader," by Frederick Quinn (Editor), A. E. Dick Howard,
Warren E. Burger (Seven Locks 1996).
The 23 most relevant essays, written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison,
have been gathered here by historian Frederick Quinn, who describes the issues and
captures the personalities in a lively introductory essay, and provides explanatory
remarks for each paper. Buy this from
Amazon.com - hardcover
- F.A. Hayek, "The Road to Serfdom"
(University of
Chicago Press 1944). Critique of the role of central planning and the problems caused by
government intervention in the economy. Buy this from Amazon.com - hard back
or paper
or audio
cassette
- Isaiah Berlin, "Isaiah Berlin: Four Essays on Liberty"
(Oxford
University Press 1990). If you "value liberty for its own sake, believe that to be
free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human
beings human," then you want to read this. Buy this from Amazon.com - paperback
- Georgie Ann Geyer, "Guerilla Prince: The Untold Story of Fidel Castro"
(Little, Brown and Company 1991), ISBN 0-316-30893-5, 445 pages. "Castro [a
lawyer by training] emerges as the betrayer of his own people, motivated in part by his
own megalomania but also by extreme anti-Americanism." Buy this from
Amazon.com - paperback
- Ithiel de Sola Pool, "Technologies of Freedom: On Free Speech in an
Electronic Age" (Harvard University Press 1983). Buy this from
Amazon.com - hard
back
- "Was Democracy Just a
Moment?" by Robert D. Kaplan (The Atlantic Monthly, December 1997)
"[The]
rise of corporate power occurs more readily as the masses become more indifferent and the
elite less accountable. Material possessions not only focus people toward private and away
from communal life but also encourage docility. The more possessions one has, the more
compromises one will make to protect them. The ancient Greeks said that the slave is
someone who is intent on filling his belly, which can also mean someone who is intent on
safeguarding his possessions." Aristophanes and Euripides, the
late-eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson, and Tocqueville in the
nineteenth century all warned that material prosperity would breed servility and
withdrawal, turning people into, in Tocqueville's words, 'industrious sheep.'"
"The Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz provides the definitive view on why Americans
degrade themselves with mass culture: 'Today man believes that there is nothing in him, so
he accepts anything, even if he knows it to be bad, in order to find himself at one with
others, in order not to be alone.' Of course, it is because people find so little in
themselves that they fill their world with celebrities."
- "The Fourth Turning," by
William Strauss and Neil Howe. "The Fourth Turning takes a close look at the
rhythms of American history and makes the following prediction: Starting about 10 years
from now, America will enter an era of crisis that will extend until the late 2020s. It
could end in triumph or tragedy. America could self-destruct -- or rise to a higher level
of civilization." Buy this from Amazon.com - hard cover
or paperback
- "John Marshall: Definer of a Nation," by Edward Smith
"The
fact that few are familiar with the life of one of America's most influential Supreme
Court jurists is surprising enough. John Marshall, after all, transformed the Court from a
problematic branch of the federal government into the most respected voice in the land.
But that it took Jean Edward Smith to deliver perhaps the best biography of the fourth
chief justice is even more unusual; Smith has not previously written about history or
constitutional law, and he's Canadian, for crying out loud. But here it is, the essential
recounting of how Marshall's life affected his understanding of the law and how his
understanding affected our land." John Marshall was the fourth Chief Justice, whose
35 years on the Supreme Court began in 1801. This title is available for
purchase from Amazon.com in paperback (Henry Holt, 1998) and hardcover (Henry Holt, 1996)
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