FAD Teaching Resource: Recommended Readings
Overview
Teaching resources shared by UNC System faculty members.
Sample Teaching Resource
Book recommendations:
- The Dignity of Legislation by Jeremy Waldron is an interesting book that offers a challenging read of John Locke that is much more democratically oriented than more standard readings and therefore offers a challenging theoretical stance to most contemporary versions of Locke-based theories of the US Constitution.
- The Living Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson presented by John Dewey offers a version of Jefferson's thought that is challenging to some contemporary views of Jefferson and more congenial to movements like the New Deal.
- "A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism" by Michael Dorf and Charles Sabel provides a picture of how citizenship and law could become more "civic."
- "Towards a Pluralistic Constitutional Universe: Interpretation and Faction" by Brian Butler provides a version of Madisonian constitutional interpretation rooted in the Federalist Papers (69 Drake L. Rev. 723). It argues that it is important to cultivate a pluralistic view of constitutional interpretation wherein any attempt at a single "correct" view such as, for example, originalism should be seen as the attempt of a faction to tyrannize.
Article Recommendations:
- Payne, S. B. (1996). The Iroquois League, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. The William and Mary Quarterly, 53(3), 605–620. https://doi.org/10.2307/2947207
- Grinde, D. A. (1995). The Iroquois and the Development of American Government. Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques, 21(2), 301–318. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41299029