Solid base for American political thought and law: Democracy's Discontent It will give you valuable insight into the current political process, how it was forme

Solid base for American political thought and law: Democracy's Discontent It will give you valuable insight into the current political process, how it was formed, why some laws are the way they are, and it has chapters discussing privacy law, free speech, religion, and a multitude of others. The chapter over the 14th Amendment offers such a great framework to view the Constitution that reading this book alone before college allowed me to ace any government type class I ever took. More dense and more theory: Liberalism and the Limits of Justice. I have read it 3 or 4 times and I still haven't digested all of it. It starts with an excellent argument for the primacy of justice and then destroys it. My favorite section of his book was about morality/enforceability of contracts in a philosophical sense. Worth several reads.