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Due
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Reading Homework: Spring 2024
HW 1
Tuesday, January 16th
Monday, 1/22
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762)
Chapters 1, 2, and 3: Subject of the First Book, The First Societies, The Rights of the Strongest-3 pages
HW 2
Monday, January 29th
Friday 2/2
The Federalist Papers #10 by James Madison (November 23, 1787) The Union as Safeguard Against Domestic Faction & Insurrection-4 pages
Brutus 1 by Melancton Smith, Robert Yates or perhaps John Williams (October 18, 1787) Criticism of the new constitution under consideration-8 pages
HW 3
Monday, February 5th
Friday 2/9
The Federalist Papers #51 by James Madison (February 8, 1788) The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments-3 pages
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1835, 1840)
Book I, Chapter VI: Judicial Power in the United States-5 pages
HW 4
Monday, February 26th
Friday, 3/1
Excerpts from The Federalist Papers #70 by Alexander Hamilton (March 15, 1788)
The Executive Department Further Considered-3 pages
Excerpts from The Federalist Papers #78 by Alexander Hamilton (May 28, 1788)
The Judiciary Department-3 pages
HW 5
Monday, March 11th
Friday, 3/22
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936)
Chapter 1, and Chapter 10-Section VI: The General Theory and Government Spending-2 pages
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848)
Chapter 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians-8 pages
HW 6
Monday, March 25th
Tuesday, 4/9
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek (1944)
The Reader’s Digest condensed version of The Road to Serfdom: Planning and Power, Background to Danger, The liberal way of planning, The Great Utopia-3 pages
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman (1980)
Chapter 2: The Tyranny of Controls-2 pages
HW 7
WHMonday, April 15th
Friday, 4/26
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1791)-2 pages
HW 8
Monday, April 29th
Wednesday, 5/22
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1513)
Chapters 1 and 6: HOW MANY KINDS OF PRINCIPALITIES THERE ARE, AND BY WHAT MEANS THEY ARE ACQUIRED, & CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQUIRED BY ONE'S OWN ARMS AND ABILITY-2 pages
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1513)
Chapters 15, 16, and 17: CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCES, ARE PRAISED OR BLAMED, CONCERNING LIBERALITY AND MEANNESS, & CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE LOVED THAN FEARED-4 pages