What do I need to read before I start American political philosophy (Federalist Papers, Paine, etc)?
Anyone have any info graphics for early American polisci ?
Js mill on liberty
DE tocqueville
Adam Smith wealth of nations skip the begats
Pursuit of power mcneill
Understand why the colonies rebelled
American Military Power and the New Mandarins
>>9766221
Basically, go to either Huffington Post or Breitbart on facebook, find the most ideologically berserk individual, go to their about page, and like everything they like. Then you get reams of on the ground, honest to god american political philosophy
readsettlers.org
>>9766221
Hobbes and Locke are probably the two most important thinkers regarding early American political philosophy.
>>9766242
>Understand why the colonies rebelled
I'd also recommend reading British responses to the claims of the colonists such as Samuel Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny and The Patriot.