Articles, Chapters, and Books

Beard, Charles. An Economic Interpretation Of The Constitution Of The United States. New York: Free Press; London Collier Macmillan, [1986], c1935

Burns, James MacGregor, Peltason, J. W., and Cronin, Thomas E. Government by the People. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1990.

Kirk, Russell. "The Framers: Not Philosophers, but Aristocrats," in The World & I (Jan. 1988), pp. 667-676.

Putnam, Robert. "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital," Journal of Democracy, 6:1 (Jan 1995) 65-78. The full text of the article and an interview with Robert Putnam. (Available on-line by clicking the title). See also: Lipset, Seymour Martin, "Malaise and Resiliency" (a response to Putnam), Journal of Democracy 6.3 (July 1995) 4-18. (Excerpts available on-line by clicking on title).

Internet Sources:

A Hypertext on American History: Explaining the Constitution (http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/federalist/fed_I.htm)

Citizens for the Constitution (http://www.constitutionproject.org/citcon.html)

Foundations: The United States Constitution (This Nation: http://www.thisnation.com/constitution.html)

Equal Rights Amendment Webpage (The Equal Rights Summit: http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/)

National Organization of Women (http://www.now.org)

The Eagle Forum (Phyllis Schafley's organization) (www.eagleforum.org); Information ERA according to the Eagle Forum (http://www.eagleforum.org/~eagle/psr/1986/sept86/psrsep86.html)

The Bowling Alone Website (http://www.bowlingalone.com)

Class Notes and Personal Communications:

Bloom, Allan. "Introduction to Political Theory," Class Notes. Cornell University, Fall Semester 1966.

Professors Marion Just and Edward Stettner, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College