Week 3: State of American Democracy and the Declaration of Independence

Wednesday, September 9

• Tyranny of the Minority, chapters 5 and 6.

Friday, September 11

• The Declaration of Independence.

• Williams, Yohuru. 2020. “Why Thomas Jefferson’s Anti-Slavery Passage Was Removed from the Declaration of Independence”.

• NPR. 2020. “‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass’ Speech.”

• Logic of American Politics, Chapter 2: sections 2.1. and 2.2.