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Eric Liu and Anne-Marie Slaughter spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival last week about the things they say all Americans should understand.

Liu is the executive director of the Aspen Institute's Citizenship and American Identity Program.  He was a speechwriter and later a deputy domestic policy advisor for President Bill Clinton. He now teaches civic leadership at the University of Washington.

Slaughter is an emerita Princeton professor and CEO of New America. She was the first woman director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department; dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School; and an international law professor at Harvard Law School. 

Slaughter compiled her own must-know list:

And should know the meaning of these documents

, delivered by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1848

 by Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, which addressed the 

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