European Documents
The Twelve Tables, 450-449 B.C. [ VIEW]
The Magna Charta, June 15, 1215
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Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328
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The Declaration of Arbroath,April 6, 1320
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English Bill of Rights 1689:An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown
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The Manner of Holding Parliament
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William and Mary: Toleration Act, 1689
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The Treaty (or Act) of Union, 1707
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King Henry VIII of England: The Act of Supremacy, 1534
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Statutes of Willliam The Conqueror
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Theodore Beza: Supralapsarianism: The Fall of Man Was Both Necessary and Wonderful
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Theodore Beza - The Right of Magistrates Over Their Subjects
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The Dutch Declaration of Independence, 1581
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Commonwealth Instrument of Government, 1653
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Habeas Corpus Act 1679
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Ordinance of William I, Separating the Spiritual and Temporal Courts
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The Petition of Right 1628
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On Secular Authority: How Far Should It Be Obeyed - Martin Luther Luther
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A Short Treatise on Political Power, Dr. John Ponet, Bishop of Rochester and Worchester
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Translators Preface to the King James 1611 Edition
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Age of Exploration
Excerpt from Columbus' Journal
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The Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery (1493)
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Columbus: Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella
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Franco de los Cobos: Instructions to Conquistadors, 1517
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The Letters Patents of King Henry the Seventh Granted unto Iohn Cabot
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Samuel de Champlain, Voyages, 1604
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Richard Hakluyt, Discourse of Western Planting, 1584
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Bartoleme de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies(1542)
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John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689
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THE MAGDEBURG CONFESSION, Magdeburg Bekenntnis Confessio et Apologia Pastorum et Reliquorum Ministrorum Ecclesiae Magdeburgensis, 1550
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Colonial Period
Short Confession of Faith in XX Articles by John Smyth
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The Settlement Of Jamestown, Captain John Smith, 1607
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JOHN SMITH: Starving Time in Virginia
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Nathaniel Bacon's Declaration to the People
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Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion 19 May 1676
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639
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Constitution of the Iroquois Nation
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The Maryland Toleration Act, 1649
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Charter Of Massachusetts Bay, 1629
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The Mayflower Compact (1620)
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Excerpts from the Navigation Acts, Navigation Act of September 13, 1660
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William Penn's Plan for Union
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The Petition of Right, 1628
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The First Thanksgiving Proclamation - June 20, 1676
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The First Virginia Charter, March 12, 1612
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Virginia Charter No.2, 1612
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Virginia Charter No. 3, 1612
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An Ordinance and Constitution of the Virginia Company in England, 24 July 1621
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Instructions for the Virginia Colony, 1606
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Excerpts from the Navigation Acts, Navigation Act of September 13, 1660
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Charter of Delaware - 1701
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Fundamental Agreement, or Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven, June 4, 1639
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The Charter or Fundamental Laws, of West New Jersey, Agreed Upon - 1676
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Charter of Georgia, 1732
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Resolutions of The Germantown Mennonites, February 18, 1688
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Charter of Carolina, June 30, 1665
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Charter of Carolina - March 24, 1663
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The Charter of New England, 1620
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Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates, 1629
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Charter for the Province of Pennsylvania-1681
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Penn's Charter of Libertie, April 25, 1682
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Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, 1584
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Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, July 15, 1663
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The Salem Covenant of 1629
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Virginia Fornication Laws
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An Agreement of the Free People of England 1649
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The Examination of Mrs Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton. 1637
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Dutch Minister Describes the Iroquois (1644)
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Roger Williams: A Plea for Religious Liberty
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Scottish Declaration of Toleration, February 12, 1687
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TAXATION NO TYRANNY: AN ANSWER TO THE RESOLUTIONS AND ADDRESS OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS, by Samuel Johnson
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Essay Against the Power of the Church To Sit in Judgement on the Civil Magistracy, John Winthrop, Esq. (1637)
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American Revolution, Early Constitutional
The Administration of Justice Act 1774
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The Albany Plan of Union, 1754
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Articles of Confederation, 1777
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The Bill of Rights: Amendments to the Constitution
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An Appeal to the Inhabitants of Quebec from the Continental Congress, Philadelphia, 1774
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Robert Beverley On Bacon's Rebellion, 1704
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James Madison: Letter to Thomas Jefferson on the Bill of Rights, October 17, 1788
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The Boston Massacre: Boston Gazette and Country Journal, March 12, 1770
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Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre
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Captain Thomas Preston's account of the Boston Massacre, 13 March 1770
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Daniel Dulany,"Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, for the Purpose of rasing a Revenue, by Act of Parliament"
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Soame Jenyns, "The Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain, briefly consider'd."
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Edmund Burke, "Speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775"
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The Continental Congress: The Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, July 6, 1775
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The Currency Act of 1764
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The Declaratory Act, 1766
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Declaration of Independence
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The Federalist No. 10, by James Madison
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King William of England Addresses Parliament on the French Question, 31 December 1701
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George Washington's Farewell Address, 1796
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The Judiciary Act of 1789
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The Massachusetts Government Act, 1774
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Jonathan Mayhew: A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers
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The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
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Petition: Reasons for making bar, as well as Pig or Sow-Iron in his Majesty's Plantation (ca. 1750)
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Reason against a general Prohibition of The Iron Manufacture in his Majesty's Plantations (ca.1750)
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A Proclamation, by The King, for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition, August 23, 1775
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The Quartering Act, 1765
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The Quebec Act, 1774
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The Stamp Act, 1765
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The Sugar Act, 1764
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The Tea Act of 1773
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The Townshend Act, 1767
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The Constitution of the United States
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The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights June 12, 1776
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Boston Port Act, 1774
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Declaration and Resolves, Continental Congress, October 14, 1774
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A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thomas Jefferson, 1774
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Rev. Samuel Miller, Washington, January 23, 1808, On the Free Exercise of Religion
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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison on Religious Freedom, Paris July 31. 1788
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Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death, Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
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The Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
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The Northwest Ordinance, United States Congress (Under the Articles of Confederation), July 13, 1787
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The Olive Branch Petition, July 8, 1775
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Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament, James Wilson, 1774
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Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act
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The Continental Congress’ Declaration of Rights and Grievances, Journal of the Stamp-Act Congress, October 19, 1765
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Stamp Act Congress, Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress October 19, 1765
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Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776
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Virginia Resolution, Alien and Sedition Acts
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Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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Letter to the United Baptist Churches in Virginia, George Washington, May 10, 1789
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Early Republic
Washington's Farewell Address
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Hamilton's Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, 1791
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An Act Respecting Alien Enemies
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The Sedition Act of July 14, 1798
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Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address, 1801
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Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
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Kentucky Resolution (1799)
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Marbury v. Madison 1803
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Mc
Culloch v. Maryland, 1819
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The Monroe Doctrine, 1823
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1814 Treaty of Ghent 1814 to end the War Of 1812
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The Jay Treaty, November 19, 1794
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Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, 1791
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Pennsylvania - An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, 1780
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Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789
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Jacksonian America
The American Anti-Slavery Society: Declaration of Sentiments, 1833
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Rev. Dr. Richard Furman's Exposition of The View of the Baptists Relative to the Colored Population of the United States to the Governor of South Carolina, 1833
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Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia, 1831
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Henry David Thoreau: On Civil Disobidence
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Henry Clay's Speech on Jackson's Bank Veto, July 10, 1832
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Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
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The Dredd Scott Case, 1857
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance (1841)
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Horace Mann: Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board (1848)
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Andrew Jackson Bank Veto Message, July 10, 1832
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Seneca Falls Declaration 1948
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Henry Carey, Excerpts from: The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign, 1853
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Transcendentalist, 1842
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The Gadsden Purchase, 1852
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; February 2, 1848
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President Andrew Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification, December 10, 1832
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The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, August 9, 1842
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Jackson on the National Bank
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Treaty of Tien-Tsin, June 18, 1858
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Civil War and Events Leading up to It
Speech of E.S. Dargan, in the Convention of Alabama, Jan. 11, 1861
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The Address of South Carolina to the Slaveholding States of the United States
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Constitution of the Confederate States of America
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The Crittenden Compromise
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Democratic Platform of 1860, Breckinridge Faction
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Democratic Platform of 1860, Douglas Faction
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The Republican Party Platform of 1860
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Ex Parte Milligan
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The Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act, 1855
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Lincoln's "House Divided" Speech, 1858
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John Brown's Final Address to the Court, November 2, 1859
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Kansas - Nebraska Act 1854 An Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas
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Charles Sumner: On the Crime Against Kansas, May, 1856
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Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly, Nashville, January 7, 1861
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Gov. Harris's Second Message
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Declaration of Causes of Seceding States, 1861
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Address of George Williamson, Commissioner from Louisiana to the Texas Secession Convention
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Ordinances of Secession of the 13 Confederate States of America
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General George B. McClellan to President Abraham Lincoln, on the Peninsula Campaign
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Quantrell's Raid on Lawrence Kansas, August 21, 1863
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
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Letter from Gen. Robert E. Lee to Confederate Pres. Jefferson Davis (1863): Gettysburg
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The Morrill Act: Land Grant Universities
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Frederick Douglass: Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage, January, 1867
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Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address [ VIEW]
Reconstruction
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, 1863
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866
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Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill, July 8, 1864
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Reconstruction Act of the Thirty-Ninth Congress
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U.S. Supreme Court: Slaughterhouse Cases
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An Excerpt from the Joint Resolution restoring Tennessee to her Relations to the Union, July 24, 1866
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United States v. Cruikshank et al.
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The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864
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Munn v. Illinois
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The Gilded Age
1867 Alaska Treaty with Russia
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Emma Lazarus: The New Colossus, 1883
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The Pendleton Act
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The People's Party Platform, 1890
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
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Bradwell v. Illinois, 1890
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The Manifesto of the Communist Party
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The Overthrow of the Molly Maguires. Stories from the Archives of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, by Cleveland Moffett
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Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth
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Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
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The Teller Amendment,1898
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The Silver Purchase Act
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Interstate Commerce Act
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The Civil Service Act
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The West
Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, 1832
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Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868
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Treaty with the Apache, July 1, 1852
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Treaty with the Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho, October 17, 1865
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Treaty with the Cheyenne and Arapaho; October 14, 1865
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Treaty with the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache; July 27, 1853
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Treaty With the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache; October 21, 1867
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The Dawes Act
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General Nelson A. Miles on the "Sioux Outbreak" of 1890
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A Survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre Speaks
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Progressive Era
Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 1886
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The Pendleton Act
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The People's Party Platform, 1890
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Muller v. Oregon, 1908
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Theodore Roosevelt: The New Nationalism 1910
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Woodrow Wilson: First Inaugural Speech, 1913
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President Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality, 19 August, 1914
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Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress
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Booker T. Washington: The Awakening of the Negro, The Atlantic Monthly September 1896
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William Jennings Bryan, Acceptance Speech for the Democratic nomination for President, Indianapolis, IN, August 8, 1900
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William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold," delivered at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, IL, July 9, 1896.
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The Life of A Coal Miner, The Slow Process of a Boy Who Starts in a Breaker, and Ends an Old Man in the Breaker -- As Told By a Man Who Was Once a Miner
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Henry George Jr., "The Single Tax What It Is and Why We Urge It"
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Henry George Jr., "What the Single Tax Is Doing"
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H. L. Mencken: "A Neglected Anniversary", New York Evening Mail, Dec. 28, 1917, On the Introduction of the Bathtub into the United States
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Menken's Creed
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H. L. Mencken, "THE MONKEY TRIAL": A Reporter's Account
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The Scopes Trail: H. L. Mencken, The Hills of Zion
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The Scopes Trial: Mencken Finds Daytonians Full of Sickening Doubts About Value of Publicity
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The Scopes Trial: Homo Neanderthalensis, by H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, June 29, 1925
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The Scopes Trial: Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury Insures Scopes' Conviction, Says Mencken, by H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 10, 1925
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The Scopes Trial:Mencken Likens Trial to a Religious Orgy, with Defendant a Beelzebub, by H.L. Mencken,The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 11, 1925
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The Scopes Trial: Yearning Mountaineers' Souls Need Re-conversion Nightly, Mencken Finds, by H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 13, 1925
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The Scopes Trial: Darrow's Eloquent Appeal Wasted on Ears That Heed Only Bryan, Says Mencken, by H.L. Mencken,The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 14, 1925
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The Scopes Trial: Law and Freedom, Mencken Discovers, Yield Place to Holy Writ in Rhea County, by H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 15, 1925
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The Scopes Trial: Mencken Declares Strictly Fair Trial Is Beyond Ken of Tennessee Fundamentalists by H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 16, 1925
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The Scopes Trial: Malone the Victor, Even Though Court Sides with Opponents, Says Mencken, by H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 17, 1925
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The Scopes Trial: Battle Now Over, Mencken Sees; Genesis Triumphant and Ready for New Jousts, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 18, 1925 by H.L. Mencken
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The Scopes Trial: Tennessee in the Frying Pan by H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 20, 1925
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The Scopes Trial: Bryan, by H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 27, 1925
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The Scopes Trial: Aftermath, by H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, September 14, 1925
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Last Words, H. L. Mencken (1926) On Democracy
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Mark Twain's Americanism, H. L. Mencken
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United States v. E. C. Knight Co.
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Washington Gladden, Applied Christianity: Moral Aspects of Social Questions
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Federal Reserve Act December 23, 1913
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Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
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Goodspeed's Comments on the Tranlators Preface to the Reader, in the King James Version, 1611
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World War I
Wilson's Speech on Neutrality, 1914
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Wilson's Address to Congress, 1917
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Wilson's Address on Declaration of War, 1917
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President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, January, 1918
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The Espionage Act of May 16, 1918
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The Covenant of the League of Nations (Including Amendments adopted to December, 1924)
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Henry Cabot Lodge: Reservations with Regard to the Treaty and the League of Nations
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Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr.: Against the League of Nations, Washington, D.C., August 12, 1919.
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Woodrow Wilson: Appeal for Support of the League of Nations
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Balfour Declaration November 2, 1917
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The Entente Cordiale Between England and France - April 8, 1904
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The Jazz Age
Schenk v. United States (1919)
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Justice Holmes' Dissenting Opinion on the Abrams v. United States
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Whitney v. California
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Warren G. Harding calls for a "Return to Normalcy," Boston, MA, May 14, 1920
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The Seventeenth Amendment
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The Eighteenth Amendment
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The Volstead Act
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The Great Depression
Carolene Products Footnote, 1938
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Near v. Minnesota, 1931
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World War II
Neville Chamberlain, Peace in Our Time, 1938
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Address at Charlottesville, 1940
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, The "Four Freedoms" Address to Congress, January 6, 1941
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Lend Lease Act, 1941
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The Atlantic Charter, 1941
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West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: "A date which will live in infamy" 8 December 1941
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1941 US Congress Declaration of War on Germany December 11, 1941
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Declaration of War on Japan, 1941
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Quarantine" Speech, October 5, 1937
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Korematsu v. the United States, 1944
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Eishenower's Farewell Speech
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The Tehran Conference, November 28-December 1, 1943
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The Yalta Conference, February, 1945
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Recent America, post-1945
The Marshall Plan, 1947
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Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer, 1952
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The North Atlantic Treaty (NATO Treaty) (1949) Washington D.C. - 4 April 1949
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Harry S. Truman: Executive Order 9981, Desegration of the Armed Forces
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Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
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Cooper v. Aaron, 1958
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The Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy, 1954
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John Kennedy to the Southern Baptists, 1960
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Lyndon B. Johnson: The American Promise
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The Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 1978
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The Issue Before the Court: Who Gets Ahead in America?
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Democracy and Foreign Policy, 1990
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Engle v. Vitale, 1962
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Foreign Aid and Human Rights, 1976
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Jimmy Carter: Foreign Aid and Human Rights, 1977
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Gideon v. Wainwright, 1963
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The Recall of General Douglas MacAuthur, 1951
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have A Dream
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New York Times v. United States, 1971
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Sanctions Against South Africa, 1986
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UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS(Adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution 217A (III) of 10 December 1948)
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Lyndon Johnson, The Great Society, 1964
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Lyndon B. Johnson, "We Shall Overcome" March 15, 1965
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Robert C. Weaver, "The Negro as an American" June 13, 1963
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Richard M. Nixon: Peace with Honor, January 23, 1973
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: Joint Resolution of Congress, H.J. RES 1145 August 7, 1964
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The Tonkin Gulf Incident: President Johnson's Message to Congress, August 5, 1964
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971
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Geroge C. Wallace, "The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax", July 4, 1964
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Civil Rights Acts, 1964
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War Powers Act, November 7, 1973, Joint Resolution
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Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Viet-Nam, July 20, 1954 Between the French and the Viet Mihn
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Hamas Covenant: The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, 18 August 1988
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Jimmy Carter speaks of growing up behind an "Invisible Wall of Racial Segregation," Los Angeles, CA June 1, 1976.
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Representative Shirley Chisholm (D-NY), on The Equal Rights Amendment, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1969
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Divorce and the Family in America, November 1966, by Christopher Lasch
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John F. Kennedy, "Ich bin ein Berliner!"
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Mary Fisher, "The Whisper of AIDS," Republican National Convention Address, Houston, TX, Aug. 19, 1992.
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President Kennedy, Proposes a moratorium on above-ground nuclear testing, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
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Malcolm X, "It shall be the ballot or the bullet," Speech, Washington Heights, NY, March 29, 1964.
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Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
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The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks from the pulpit on courage, Selma, AL, March 8, 1965.
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Martin Luther King, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1964 Oslo, Norway
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Roe v. Wade, 1973, Supreme Court on Abortion Rights: Justice Blackmun
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Roe v. Wade, 1973, Supreme Court on Abortion Rights: Justice Stewart Concurring
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Roe v. Wade, 1973, Supreme Court on Abortion Rights: Justice Renquist Dissenting
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Street v. New York, 1969, Flag-burning and Freedom of Speech (Fighting Words)
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Street v. New York, 1969, Flag-burning and Freedom of Speech (Fighting Words): Dissent
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Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District,(1948): Establishment of Religion
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Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District,(1948): Establishment of Religion (Use of Public School Facilities for the propagation of Religion
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Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education of School District,(1948), Separate Opinion: Establishment of Religion (Use of Public School Facilities for the propagation of Religion,
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Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986): Sexuality/Sodomy [ VIEW]
Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986): Sexuality/Sodomy: Dissenting Opinion
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Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928): Wiretaps
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Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928): Wiretaps: Dissenting Opinion
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The Tenet Plan : Israeli-Palestinian Ceasefire and Security Plan, Proposed by CIA Director George Tenet; June 13, 2001
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The Wye River Memorandum; October 23, 1998
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The Evil Empire, President Reagan's Speech to the House of Commons, June 8, 1982
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The European Parliment's Resolution on Tibet
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The Economic Opportunity Act, 1964
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Equal Employment Opportunity
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National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
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Voting Rights Act, 1965
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Wilderness Act of 1964
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The Sixties...And Beyond
National Organization of Women: Statement of Purpose, 1966
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Reynolds v. Sims, 1964
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Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, 1962
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The Manifesto of the Communist Party
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Money Is An Unnecessary Evil
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From the Digger Archives: Let Me Live In A World Pure
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From the Digger Papers: Trip Without A Ticket
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From the Digger Papers: The Dialectics of Liberation
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REFLECTIONS ON STUDENT ACTIVISM (1988), By Abbie Hoffman, Speech to the first National Student Convention, Rutgers University, February 6, 1988
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American Indian Movement: Preamble, Trail of Broken Treaties
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Trail of Broken Treaties 20-Point Position Paper - An Indian Manifesto
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The Unibomber's Manifesto
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Bob Dylan: The Times They are A-Changin'
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Bob Dylan: When the Ship Comes In
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Bob Dylan: My Back Pages
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Bob Dylan: Chimes of Freedom
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Bob Dylan: Mr. Tambourine Man
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Bob Dylan: Paths of Victory
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Bob Dylan: Blowin In the Wind
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Bob Dylan: Desolation Row
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Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
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Bob Dylan: It Ain't Me, Babe
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Phil Ochs: Draft Dodger Rag
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Phil Ochs: I Ain't Marching Anymore
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Phil Ochs: Freedom Riders
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Phil Ochs: What Are You Fighting For?
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Phil Ochs: Links On the Chain
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Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son
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Leonard Cohen: Suzanne
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