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Print Resources:
Professor Kramnick collaborated with R. Laurence Moore
on a book that will be useful in studying the Lockean influence
on one aspect of the U.S. Constitution: The Godless Constitution:
The Case Against Religious Correctness. New York: W.W. Norton,
c1996
The two authors contributed an abbreviated version of their book’s
thesis in chapter 4 of Engeman, Thomas S. and Michael P. Zuckert,
eds. Protestantism And The American Founding . Notre
Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, c2004.
You may also be interested in his essays:
“Corruption in Eighteenth-Century English and American
Political Discourse” in Virtue, Corruption, And Self-Interest:
Political Values In The Eighteenth Century, edited by Richard
K. Matthews. Bethlehem [Pa.]: Lehigh University Press, c1994.
and “The Discourse of Politics in 1787: The Constitution
and Its Critics on Individualism, Community, and the State”
in To Form A More Perfect Union: The Critical Ideas Of The
Constitution edited by Herman Belz,et al., Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 1992.
Finally, you’ll find the texts of Locke’s “Letter
on Toleration” and “Second Treatise of Government”
along with helpful editorial notes in Professor Kramnick’s
The Portable Enlightenment Reader. New York: Penguin
Books, c1995.
As you can imagine, the literature on Locke and his writings
is vast. I’ll limit myself here to books that seem most
relevant to the needs of students and teachers in the k-12 range
that are likely to be fairly easily available. These are some
of the most recent one-volume studies of Locke and his work:
Cope, Kevin Lee. John Locke Revisited. New York: Twayne,
1999. Routledge, 1997.
Feser, Edward. Locke. Oxford: Oneworld, 2007.
Parry, Geraint. John Locke. London: Routledge, 2004.
Spellman, W. M. John Locke. New York: St. Martin's Press,
1997.
Woolhouse, R. S. Locke: A Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007.
Locke, John and Paul Sigmund, ed. The Selected Political Writings
of John Locke (Norton Critical Editions). New York: W.W.
Norton, 2005.
For more background on Sam Adams and Jonathan Boucher, you have
these books:
Puls, Mark. Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Stoll, Ira. Samuel Adams: A Life. New York: Free Press,
2008.
Zimmer, Anne Y. Jonathan Boucher, Loyalist in Exile.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1978.
These examine Locke’s influence on the men who fought the
Revolution and formed the new United States government:
Brown, Gillian. The Consent Of The Governed: The Lockean
Legacy In Early American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, c2001.
Dworetz, Steven M. The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism,
And The American Revolution. Durham: Duke University Press,
1990.
These authors examine Lockean thought relating to religion:
Marshall, John. John Locke: Resistance, Religion And Responsibility.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Waldron, Jeremy. God, Locke, and Equality. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
In addition to the materials in Dr. Kramnick’s Enlightenment
Reader, you may want to look at These studies of Locke’s
“Treatises of Government” and “Letter Concerning
Toleration”:
Ashcraft, Richard. Revolutionary Politics & Locke's Two
Treatises Of Government. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, c1986.
Kelly, P. J. Locke's Second Treatise of Government: A Reader's
Guide. London: Continuum, 2007.
Shapiro, Ian, ed. Two Treatises Of Government: And A Letter
Concerning Toleration. A collection of scholarly essays.
New Haven, Conn. ; London: Yale University Press, c2003.
Marshall, John. John Locke: Resistance, Religion And Responsibility.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Waldron, Jeremy. God, Locke, and Equality. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
For more material for Jefferson’s Notes on the State of
Virginia:
Tucker, David. Enlightened Republicanism: A Study Of Jefferson's
Notes On The State Of Virginia. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books,
c2008.
Waldstreicher, David, ed. Notes On The State Of Virginia:
With Related Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, c2002.
Internet Resources:
You have a choice of full text versions of Locke’s major
works online. The University of Pennsylvania Library provides
a page with links to online versions of his books. While you’re
there, take a look at the Library’s “Help with Reading
Books” advice – most helpful:
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/
search?amode=start&author=Locke,%20John
The Treatises of Government can be found at:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7370
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=
com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=222&Itemid=99999999
Oregon State University provides the text of the Letter Concerning
Toleration:
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/locke/
locke2/locke-t/locke_toleration.html
You also have a choice of online encyclopedias of philosophy with
fine essays on Locke and his works. The more scholarly is the
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. These entries may be the
most useful for k-12 classroom use:
John Locke:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
Locke’s Political Philosophy:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/
Locke’s Philosophy of Science:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-philosophy-science/
Many people find the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy easier
to use. Here I’d suggest that you go to the entry for “Political
Philosophy of John Locke”. Note that you can scroll down
to find sections on the “Treatises of Government”
and “Letter concerning Toleration”:
http://www.iep.utm.edu/locke-po/
You can find the full text of Jefferson’s Notes on the State
of Virginia and the University of Virginia’s Electronic
Text Center:
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefVirg.html
To let your students know what John Locke looked like, the National
Portrait Gallery provides a handsome selection of portraits:
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp02773
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