Tuesday-Thursday Sections Schedule, Continued

Discussion assignments - readings & papers:All of the 'Watson' readings are obviously from the class readings book.  The rest are photocopies from various sources and will be handed out in class or are found on my "reserve" at the library circulation desk.  Those marked with an asterisk (*) are readings in "common" with all other sections of Core 102 and will be the sole basis for the Final Exam.

Feb 3

*1)  Watson ch 3 - Euripides, "Suppliants"

*2A)  Watson ch 2 - Thucydides, Pericles' "Funeral Oration"

*2B)  Watson ch 1 - Thucydides, the "Melian Dialogue"

*3)  Watson ch 4 - Aristotle, "Democratic Judgement"

Feb 8

4)  Livy,"The Early History of Rome"

Feb 13

*5)  Watson ch 5 - "Magna Carta"

6)  Parliament, "Writs of Summons"

7)  Parliament, "Growth of the Powers of Parliament"

Feb 27

8)  John Calvin, "Church Government"

Mar 1

10)  Parliament, "Reformation laws"

Mar 6

11)  "James I & the House of Commons"

12)  "Charles I & the House of Commons"

Mar 13

*13)  Watson ch 6 -  - T. Hobbes, "The Social Contract"

*14)  Watson ch 7 - John Locke, "Toleration & Government"

Mar 15

15)  "Bill of Rights" & "Toleration Act" (1689)

Mar 27

16)  Blackstone, "Commentaries"

*17)  Watson ch 10 - Edmund Burke, "On Election to Parliament"

Mar 29

*19)  Watson ch 8 - Immanuel Kant, "Freedom & Enlightenment"

*20)  Watson ch 11 - "Declaration of the Rights of Man & of Citizens"

21)  "Civil Constitution of the Clergy"

Apr 3

22)  "Massachusetts Body of Liberties"

*22A) Roger Williams, "Letter to the Town of Providence"

*23)  Watson ch 9 - "Declaration of Independence of the United States"

Apr 5

24)  Benjamin Franklin, "Speech at the Constitutional Convention"

*25)  Watson ch 12 - Constitution of the USA

*25A)  Watson ch 13-14 - The Federalist # 10 & # 51

Apr 19

*26)  Watson ch 23 - J S Mill, "On Liberty"

Apr 24

*27)  Watson ch 22 - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, "Communist Manifesto"

Apr 26

28)  Thomas Jefferson, "First Inaugural Address"

29)  John Marshall, "Marbury v. Madison"

*30)  Watson ch 15 - Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy & Equality"

*30A)  Watson ch 19 - H D Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"