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“I think this is the greatest explanation, in one place, of the American constitution, of the essential underpinnings and structures that make American democracy possible. This is how to view the constitution in its proper perspective, as a document of limited government, and enormous personal freedom – as an attempt to understand human nature and draw on both its strengths and its weaknesses to achieve a community and nation.” Read more...
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The Federalist papers were written by Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay. They are a series of 85 articles, written anonymously to promote the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. Hamilton wrote most of them. Karl Rove, adviser to George Bush, described the Federalist Papers to us as “a work of great philosophical theory about the nature of the American government, the nature of the American experience… The greatest explanation in one place of the American constitution, of the essential underpinnings and structures that make American democracy possible.”
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Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
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