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1 1. Locke: “[T]he beginning of politic[al] society depends upon the consent of the individuals to join into, and make one society; who, when they are thus incorporated, might set up what form of government they thought fit.” Second Treatise of Civil Government (1689), Ch. VIII. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson slightly altered Locke’s formulation of the animating rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

2 2. Locke: “[F]reedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power erected in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, where that rule prescribes not; and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.” Ibid., Ch. IV.

3 3. Isaiah Berlin, “Two Concepts of Liberty” (1958); Benjamin Constant, “The Liberty of the Moderns and The Liberty of the Ancients” (1819).

4 4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses (1761), Book IV, Ch. 8.

5 5. Believing this to have been a mistake, the framers of the pro-slavery Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861) remedied the omission by announcing its promulgation by “We, the people of the Confederate States … invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God ….”

6 6. Isaac Kramnick, “‘The Great National Discussion’: The Discourse of Politics in 1787” (1988).

7 7. Rogers M. Smith, “Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America” (1993); Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in US History (1999).