Their are a few books that are very necessary for the full understanding of liberty as our founding fathers understood it when writing the constitution. These books were:
Leading up to the Constitution:
Plato's The Republic
Descarte's Meditations on First Philosophy
and most importantly (and recent) Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract.
When writing the Constitution:
Anti-Federalist Papers (Focused on State rights and weak Federal government)
Federalist Papers (Weak State rights and powerful Federal government)
Both can be read here: http://www.constitution.org/afp/afp.htm
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