Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Civics Syllabus -- Readings & Bibliography

Recommended readings for Sessions 1 and 2
1.      The Declaration of Independence
2.      The Constitution of The United States
3.      The Federalist Papers
4.      The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
5.      The Five Thousand Year Leap
6.      A Patriot’s History of the United States
7.      A More Perfect Constitution
8.      Common Sense
On-line
1.      The Coming Constitutional Debate

Additional Suggested Readings for Session 3
1.      Original Intent
2.      Democracy in America
3.      A Conflict of Visions
4.      The Ascent of Money
5.      The Creature From Jekyll Island
6.      End the Fed
7.      New Deal or Raw Deal?

Additional Suggested Readings for Session 4
  In Print
1.      The Declaration of Independence
2.      The Constitution of the United States
3.      How Should We Then Live?
4.      Original Intent
5.      A Patriot’s History of the United States
6.      Common Sense
7.      Culture of Corruption
8.      Liberty and Tyranny
9.      Money Mischief
10.  The Ascent of Money
11.  Rules for Radicals
12.  Rules for Conservative Radicals
13.  The Five Thousand Year Leap
14.  What Americans Really Want – Really
15.  Words That Work
16.  New Deal or Raw Deal?
17.  Modern Man in Search of a Soul


  On-line
1.      Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Congregation
2.      The Mythical “Wall of Separation” – The Heritage Foundation
3.      Everson v. Board of Education, 1947
4.      John F. Kennedy’s Houston Speech, 1960
5.      The Enduring Cost of John F. Kennedy’s Compromise – Colleen Carroll Campbell
6.      Church-State Relations – Phil Lawler
7.      The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life –Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver

Additional Suggested Readings for Session 5
Recommended readings
1.      National Suicide
2.      A Conflict of Visions
3.      Aftershock
4.      Liberty and Tyranny
5.      Money Mischief
6.      The Ascent of Money
7.      New Deal or Raw Deal
8.      Rules for Radicals
9.      Rules for Conservative Radicals
10.  The Survivors Club
11.  Stand Up Straight!
12.  What Americans Really Want – Really
13.  Words That Work
14.  The Coming Insurrection
15.  Modern Man in Search of a Soul

On-line
1.      The Coming Constitutional Debate

Additional Suggested Readings for Session 6
1.      Candidates’ Pledges
2.      The Declaration of Independence
3.      The Constitution of The United States  
4.      A Patriot’s History of the United States  
5.      A More Perfect Constitution  
6.      Common Sense  
7.      Democracy in America  
8.      End the Fed  
9.      How Should We Then Live?
10.  Liberty and Tyranny
11.  Original Intent  
12.  Return to Prosperity  
13.  Rules for Radicals  
14.  Rules for Conservative Radicals  
15.  The Ascent of Money  
16.  The Federalist Papers  
17.  The Five Thousand Year Leap 

All the On-line Letters, Speeches and Articles in the Bibliography, below


BIBLIOGRAPHY & ALL SUGGESTED READINGS, REFERENCES 
A Conflict of Visions   by Thomas Sowell
Aftershock   by David and Robert Wiedemer, Cindy Spitzer
A More Perfect Constitution   by Larry Sabato
A Patriot’s History of the United States   by Larry Schweikart & Michael Allen
Architects of Ruin   by Peter Schweizer
Bankrupting Joe the Taxpayer   by D. J. Golio
Can America Survive?   by Ben Stein & Phil DeMuth
Common Sense   by Thomas Paine
Culture of Corruption   by Michelle Malkin
Democracy in America   by Alexis de Tocqueville
End the Fed   by Ron Paul
48 Liberal Lies About American History   by Larry Schweikart
How Barack Obama is Bankrupting the U.S. Economy   by Stephen Moore
How Should We Then Live?   by Francis A. Schaeffer
How to Ruin the United States of America   by Ben Stein & Phil DeMuth
Liberty and Tyranny   by Mark Levin
Lies the Government Told You   by Judge Andrew Napolitano
Modern Man in Search of a Soul   by Carl Jung
Money Mischief   by Milton Friedman
National Suicide   by Martin L. Gross
New Deal or Raw Deal?   by Burton Folsom, Jr.
Original Intent   by David Barton
Permission To Think   by David Buckner
Radicals for Capitalism   by Brian Doherty
Return to Prosperity   by Arthur Laffer & Stephen Moore
Rules for Conservative Radicals   by Michael Patrick Leahy
Rules for Radicals   by Saul Alinsky
Stand Up Straight!   by Robert Creamer
The Ascent of Money   by Niall Ferguson
The Coming Insurrection   by The Invisible Committee
The Creature from Jeckyll Island   by G. Edward Griffin
The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of The United States   
     published by the Heritage Foundation
The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers   by David Wootton
The Federalist Papers   by Charles R. Kesler
The Five Thousand Year Leap   by W. Cleon Skousen
The Survivors Club   by Ben Sherwood
The Wealthy Barber   by David Chilton
What Americans Really Want – Really   by Frank Luntz
Words That Work   by Frank Luntz

On-line Articles, Speeches, Papers

Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Congregation
The Mythical “Wall of Separation” – The Heritage Foundation
Everson v. Board of Education, 1947
John F. Kennedy’s Houston Speech, 1960
The Enduring Cost of John F. Kennedy’s Compromise – Colleen Carroll Campbell
Church-State Relations – Phil Lawler
The Vocation of Christians in American Public Life –Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Denver
The Coming Constitutional Debate – Judge Stephen Markman

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