Stephanie Scott GVPP 381 – American Political Thought Week of January 31 (Week 1) Notes Readings: The Declarations of Jefferson and of the Congress & The Declaration of Independence ********************************************************************************* The first week of in-class reading was brief. The syllabus was reviewed and the Declaration of Independence in its original state was read. At home we were to read in our textbook, Political Thought in America by Michael B. Levy, pages 81-83, the revised and final form of the Declaration of Independence. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the pow