Reading List for Students
The Founders' Constitution. This online resources has multiple primary sources for students. While some are difficult to read quickly, most are short and provide commentary on political, theoretical, and legal issues surrounding the development of the Constitution. Primary sources can be found that correspond to virtually all articles and sections of the constitution. By simply clicking on an article/section, students can view documents, chronologically sorted, that related to the given section.
Brutus, numbers 11, 12,13, & 15 are great Anti-Federalist papers which specifically contemplate the role of the judicial branch, and which present several original arguments against judicial supremacy.
Federalist papers 80-82 offer an opposing view that supports the constitutional construction of the judiciary. These offer a superb opportunity for analyzing text structure and argumentative style.
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