LBCCS Movie Night Resources

Meeting Date: June 5, 2009

"A More Perfect Union"

You can find the full text of the Declaration of Independence at:
http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/index.htm

You can find the full text of the US Constitution at:
http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html

For further reading on the Constitution:
The Federalist Papers, by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton
Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787, by Christopher Collier
The Making of America, by W. Cleon Skousen
The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, by Edwin Meese
The Revolution: A Manifesto, by Ron Paul

Reading on the philosophy behind the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution:
The 5000 Year Leap, by W. Cleon Skousen
Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke
The Spirit of Laws, by Charles baron de Montesquieu
The Republic and the Laws, by Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith

“The natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second to liberty; third to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.” Samuel Adams, 1772

“A Wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” Thomas Jefferson, 1801