richard brookhiser will be with us for 55 more minutes. he is in new york and will take calls in just a few minutes. republicans can call host: you mentioned the 13 documents you review to tell this story about liberty. we will show those we wanted you to pick and choose a few of those. and why you decided to choose them. you began with the jamestown papers. you begin with the jamestown papers. talk about these documents if you can. the 13let me go through -- the first is the minutes of the first meeting of the general assembly of jamestown in 1619. that establishes the principle of self-rule in british north america. the second is the flushing remonstrance, 1647. villagers in the town of flushing rebuking director general peter stuyvesant, the governor of new amsterdam. forbade quakers. not obey you.ill we want to do under all men as we would have men do want to us. 17:30 5 -- 1735 -- the minutes of the trial of john peters anger in new york, a journalist tried for the crime of seditious libel. his lawyer got the jury to acquit him even t

host: joining us this morning, richard brookhiser, senior editor of "national review and author of this book "give me liberty