WEEK ONE

1. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday – Equality in the Declaration of Independence
   • Declaration of Independence
   • Jefferson, “Letter to Roger Weightman,”
   • Jefferson, “Letter to John Holmes,”
   • Jefferson, “Letter to John Adams”
   • Locke, Second Treatise
   • Abigail Adams, “Letter to John Adams (March 31, 1776)”
2. Thursday and Friday – The Constitution
   • Lincoln, “Apples of Gold” (Fragment on the Constitution),
   • U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights

WEEK TWO

1. Monday and Tuesday – Slavery and Race, Equality and Freedom
   • Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?”
   • Lincoln, “Speech on the Dred Scott Decision”
   • Lincoln, “Emancipation Proclamation”
   • Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address”
   • Douglass, “Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln”
2. Wednesday – Ancient Citizenship
   • Plutarch, “Lycurgus”
3. Thursday and Friday – Socratic Citizenship
   • Plato, Apology of Socrates
   • Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”