Democracy, Freedom, Deliberation, Citizenship

The Cornerstone Speech: contemporaneous news coverage. BTW, this source is a good case study in internet research. Google Cornerstone Speech 1861 and one early hit is

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=227002 , which cites

http://www.pointsouth.com/csanet/greatmen/stephens/stephens-corner.html -- but the link is broken. What to do? Paste the link into:

http://www.archive.org/

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Democracy: the people rule themselves

• Who are the people?
• Limited government v. unlimited scope of power: "everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."

Freedom

• Negative Freedom
• Positive Freedom

Deliberation

• What does it mean to reason on the merits?
• How does deliberation differ from bargaining?

Citizenship

• What is civic virtue?

Cows and Isms