Some pertinent Reading Material:

John Locke, Second Treatise of Government

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7370

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3300

Friedrich Hayek

The Road to Serfdom

http://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Documents-Definitive-Collected/dp/0226320553/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232998355&sr=8-2

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

The Federalist Papers

http://federali.st/

The constitution of the United States of America

http://federali.st/constitution

Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence

http://federali.st/declaration

The articles of confederation of the United  States

http://federali.st/articles