Fundamental Documents
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Foundation Documents for Our Constitutional System,
 Some Essays, and Other Fundamental Statements of Human Rights
 

  • The Magna Carta, Two Sources: First, Second

  • The Iroquois Constitution
  • CONCERNING CIVIL GOVERNMENT, SECOND ESSAY,
         John Locke, Two Sources: First, Second

  • Locke on Tolerance

  • Resolutions of the Stamp Act
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  • The Rights of the Colonists, Samuel Adams
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  • The Declaration and Resolves of the 1st Continental
          Congress - 1774

  • Orders from General Thomas Gage, Second, Third

  • Thomas Paine, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death,
          Common Sense, The Rights of Man

  • Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms,
          Second Source
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  • The Virginia Declaration of Rights, Sources: First,
          Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth

  • Declaration of Independence, Four Sources: First, Second,
              Third, Fourth
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  • Jefferson's Account of a Declaration
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  • Thomas Jefferson Online Resources
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  • Samuel Adams, "American Independence," 1 August 1776,
          Second

  • The Articles of Confederation, Two Sources: First, Second

  • The Paris Peace Treaty of 1783
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  • The North-west Ordinance
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  • Memorial and Remonstrance, Second

  • Letter Transmitting the Constitution
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  • The Federalist Papers, Sources: First, Second, Third, Fourth,
          Fifth
  • Federalist 29 annotated with plain language
  • The Anti-Federalist Papers, Second, Third
  • Elliot's Debates
  • The Founders' Constitution
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  • The United States Constitution, Six Sources: First, Second,
          Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth
  • Storey's COMMENTARIES ON THE CONSTITUTION
  • How the Government Interprets the Constitution
  • Important State Constitutions Virginia (1776),
          Pennsylvania (1776), Pennsylvania (1790),
          Vermont (1777), Massachusetts (1780),
          Tennessee (1796), Ohio (1802), Texas (1836),

  • Bill of Rights: Preamble, ORIGINAL, First, Second
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  • Amendments To The US Constitution
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  • James Madison notes for speech in Congress on the
          Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789
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  • Annals of Congress
  • First Federal Congress

  • Know Your Rights! (Ken Lombardi's very good web page)

  • English Grammar Analysis of the Second Amendment,
         J. Neil Schulman

  • James's Liberty file collection index

  • Lysander Spooner,     Natural Law, and
         No Treason -- The Constitution of No Authority
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  • James A. Donald, Natural Law and Natural Rights,
          Locke versus Hobbes, and On Moral Judgments

  • Frederick Bastiat, The Law, and
         That Which is Seen, and that Which is Not Seen

  • MARYLAND CONSTITUTION

  • The UN Declaration of Human Rights
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  • Constitution Society

    •         Organizations
            Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics
            Liberty Library of State Constitutions

     



    Updated by Phil Lee on 9/25/04.  Contact pflee at wdn dot com (sorry for being obscure, but web mail address scavenge programs make this practice necessary).