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4. THOMAS HOBBES’S LEVIATHAN AND THE ALL-POWERFUL STATE

1. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Edwin Curley, ed. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994). Subsequent references to this work will be to page number.

5. KARL MARX’S COMMUNIST MANIFESTO AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE

1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (London: SoHo, 2010). Subsequent references to this work are to (Page).

2. Karl R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 2, Hegel and Marx (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), 83 (emphasis in original).

3. Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals (New Brunswick: Transaction, 2007), 339.

4. Mark R. Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (New York: Threshold Editions, 2009), 65–66.

5. “America Runs on Small Chamber,” Main Street Chamber, Sept. 29, 2010, http://www.mainstreetchamber-mn.org/2010/09/29/ameria-runs-on-small-business-2/ (July 16, 2011).

6. Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals, 343.

6. JOHN LOCKE AND THE NATURE OF MAN

1. John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Subsequent references to this work will be to (Book, Chapter, Section).

2. John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004). Subsequent references to this work will be to (Chapter, Section).

7. THE INFLUENCE OF LOCKE ON THE FOUNDERS

1. Livingston was one of the delegates who did not sign the Declaration as he believed, among other things, that reconciliation with Britain was still possible.

2. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Peter Laslett, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Subsequent references to this work will be to (Chapter, Section).

3. Thomas Jefferson’s “original rough draught” of the Declaration of Independence, http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/declaration/declaration.html (July 13, 2011).

4. James Madison, “Property,” National Gazette, March 29, 1792, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=600 (July 13, 2011).

5. William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/blackstone_intro.asp#2 (July 13, 2011).

6. Madison, “Property.”

7. Jeffrey M. Gaba, “John Locke and the Meaning of the Takings Clause,” 72 Missouri Law Review 525, 527 n.4 (2007) citing William Michael Treanor, “The Origins and Original Significance of the Just Compensation Clause of the Fifth Amendment,” 94 Yale Law Journal 694, 708–12 (1985).

8. U.S. Constitution, Fifth Amendment.

9. Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), 27.

8. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU AND REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT

1. Charles Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, Anne M. Cohler, Basia C. Miller, and Harold S. Stone, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) (Part 1, Book 1, Chapter 2). Subsequent references to this work will be to (Part, Book, Chapter).

9. THE INFLUENCE OF MONTESQUIEU ON THE FRAMERS

1. Donald S. Lutz, The Origins of American Constitutionalism (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), 143.

2. John R. Vile, The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America’s Founding, vol. 1 (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005), 495.

3. Ibid., citing Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention, vol. 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937), 71.

4. Ibid., citing Farrand, I, 308.

5. Ibid., citing Farrand, I, 391.

6. Ibid., citing Farrand, I, 485.

7. Ibid., citing Farrand, II, 34.

8. Ibid., citing Farrand, II, 530.

9. Ibid., citing Farrand, I, 580.

10. Ibid., citing Forrest McDonald, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985), 233.

11. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers (New York: Penguin, 1987).

12. Ibid.

13. David Wootton, ed., The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2003), 99.

14. Ibid., 105.

15. Ibid., 11–12.

16. Ibid., 13.

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