In Blood and Ink

Book 1--from Runnymede to Roosevelt. "We the people ..."--Patrick Henry said: "--" -- Water steals, and carries to the sea -- Bodily and external goods -- Lawyer-words in clouds of darkness -- The barons of Runnymede and the great charter -- "All men are created free and equal" -- King John and the tree of liberty -- Liberty, profit, and dissenters -- Clouds of revolution ... daggers ... infanticide ... military executioners -- Declaration of American rights -- The battalion of death--our unwritten constitution -- Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms, July 6, 1775 -- The king of America -- Free..from the British crown -- The Declaration of Independence -- The critical period--for whom? -- Founding fathers and the "commercial interests" -- A business document is completed -- Does the constitution protect freedom in America? -- The march of empire -- Old men write in ink, young men in blood -- Two constitutions drip with blood -- Fifty thousands bayonets -- Slaves, trick, vests, negroes, radicals -- American people asleep at the switch -- Hoover out, Roosevelt in -- Sacred bricks, strange political coats of arms -- Nine gods or nine men? -- What's liberty if you don't eat? -- What good is liberty if you can't get it? -- Strikes and violence, or peaceful settlement? -- Dust, water, minerals--a national concept -- Roads were once evil -- The third form of government -- Checks, blocks and tackles of government -- Business--seven good doctors and true -- Book 2--documents tell the tale. Magna Carta, 1215 -- Charters, constitutions, and ordinances -- The Declaration of Independence, 1776 -- Articles of Confederation, March 1, 1781 -- Northwest Ordinance, 1787 -- Confederate Constitution -- The Constitution of the United States of America