Chapter 1: Debating Power & Empire

Chapter 2: Restoration Settlements

Chapter 3: Reacting to Absolutism

Butts v. Penny (1677)

A Letter From Sir Thomas Grantham To a Member of Bacon’s Rebellion

Habeas Corpus Act of 1679

John Locke – An Essay on Reputation

Morgan Godwyn – Trade Preferred Before Religion (1685)

Marvell Andrew – A Collection of Poems On Affairs

Robert Le’Strange – On Sedition Prosecutions (1663)

Chapter 4: Glorious Revolutions?

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (c. 1680-1683)

English Bill of Rights (1689)

James Tyrrell – Bibliotheca Politica

John Locke – Two Treatises of Government (1689)

Lord Sunderland Correspondence on the Appointment of John Locke to Christ Church (1684)

The Bloody Assizes: Or, A Complete History of the Life of George Lord Jefferies, From His Birth to This Present Time

The Dominion of New England

Chapter 5: Whig Moments

Chamberlain v. Harvey (1697)

Colonial State Papers

John Locke – A Letter on Toleration (1685)

Samuel Sewall – The Selling of Joseph (1700)

The Virginia Slave Code of 1705

Chapter 6: Tory Reactions

1698 African Trade Act

Virginia Slave Code 1705

Robert Harley’s investigations into Bacon’s Rebellion (1676-1705)

Queen Anne’s speech on the Assiento 1712

Assiento and the Treaty of Utrecht 1710-1713

Cato by Joseph Addison 1712

Hogarth’s South Sea Bubble Print 1720

Yorke Talbot Decision 1729

Chapter 7: Revolutionary Atlantics

Somerset v. Somerset (1772)

Thomas Jefferson Draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776)

Pennsylvania Gradual Emancipation Act (1780)

St. George Tucker Gradual Emancipation Plan (1796)

Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)

Chapter 6: Colonial Aftershocks

Sedition Legislation in Congress (1830s-1860s)

Kansas Prohibitions on Anti-Slavery Material and Ending Slavery (1850s)

Corwin Amendment (1860)