Lesson 33: What Does It Mean to Be a Citizen?

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Emile, or On Education by Rousseau

From Wikipedia: Emile, or On Education is a treatise on the nature of education but also on the nature of man, written by Rousseau. It tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions about the relationship between the individual and society.

Link: https://bit.ly/2oegE1n


Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke (1693)

Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on education written by the English philosopher John Locke.

Link: http://www.bartleby.com/37/1/


Aristotle--Politics, 350 BCE

Aristotle's work on such topics as the political community, economics, property rights, citizenship, leadership, constitutions and the ideal state.

Link: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.html


Articles of Confederation

The Articles of Confederation were, in effect, the first constitution of the United States. Drafted in 1777 by the same Continental Congress that passed the Declaration of Independence, the articles established a "firm league of friendship" between and among the 13 states.

Link: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/artconf.asp


Cicero--De re publica (The Republic or On The Commonwealth), 54-51BC

Cicero's theories of constitutions, education, and citizenship.

Link: http://is.gd/2EM01


Declaration of Independence 1776

From Wikipedia: The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American Colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire.

Link: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm


The Meriam Report (1928)

The Meriam Report was a survey of conditions on Indian reservations in 23 states. Titled The Problem of Indian Administration, the report was called the most important treatise on Indian affairs since Helen Hunt Jackson's Century of Dishonor (1881).

Link: http://tinyurl.com/yzotjgp


Tocqueville--Democracy in America, 1835, 1840

A review of American representational government in the 1830s, focusing on the reasons for success in America versus attempts and failures in other places.

Link: http://books.google.com/books?id=gTX-uSzS2fAC&printsec=title