• Foundations of Political Thought and Social Science

• The Old Science of Politics

• Plato's Republic

•           Full Text

•           The Allegory of the Cave

•           The Corruption of Regimes

• Aristotle's Politics

•           Full Text

•           Assigned Reading

• The New Science of Politics

• Niccolo Machiavelli

•          The Prince

• Thomas Hobbes

•           Leviathan

•           Assigned Reading: 1.13

• John Locke

•           Two Treatises of Government

•           Assigned Reading

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

•           The Social Contract

• Thomas Jefferson

•           The Declaration of Independence

•             Becker edition with excised text and commentary

•             Federal edition

• Immanuel Kant

•             Principles of Political Right

• Andrew Roberts' Lectures on the History of Social Science

• Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty

• Institutions of US Government

• Legislative:

• US House of Representatives

• US Senate                    

• Executive:

• The President of the United States

• Other Executive Departments  

• Judicial:

• US Supreme Court   

• The Federal Court System

• Sources in American Constitutionalism

• The Constitution Society:

•         The Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics

•         American Founding Documents

• Gayanashagowa

• Articles of Confederation

• The Constitution of 1787

•         Madison's Record the Federal Convention of 1787

•         Federalist Papers

•         Anti-Federalist papers

• Gretchen Feltes' Guide to the US Federal Legal System

• US Dept of State's USInfo Fact Sheet

• Institutions of Texas Government

• Legislative              

•         Texas Legislature    

• Executive

•        Governor                  

•         Lt. Governor            

•         Comptroller of Public Accounts

•         Texas Attorney General    

•         Land Commissioner

•         Agriculture Commissioner

•         Texas Secretary of State

• Judicial

•         Texas Supreme Court

•         Court of Criminal Appeals  

• Other state agencies (Includes Judiciary): http://www2.tsl.state.tx.us/trail/agencies.jsp 

• The Library of Congress

• Find a Bill (The THOMAS Server)     

• Find a Law (FindLaw)    

• Find a Court

Other 2301 Links

Find a candidate or Political Party: http://www.issues2000.org

Find an Issue or IG:http://www.politicalindex.com/  
My current research project: The LEO Test 

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