Documents in Early American
History
Richard Hakluyt,
Discourse of Western Planting, 1584
Roger
Williams, A Plea for Religious Liberty
Roger
Williams, Wall of Separation
Trial of Anne Hutchinson
John Trenchard
and Thomas Gordon, Cato's Letters
A Brief Narrative of the
Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger
Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
David Hume, On the Original
Contract
Iroquois-Delaware Grand Council, 1742
Proclamation of 1763
Neolin, the Delaware Prophet, and Pontiac, the Master of Life Speaks to the Wolf
Sugar
Act
Stamp Act
Dulany, "Considerations"
Henry, Virginia Resolutions, 1765
Stamp Act Congress Resolutions
Declaratory Act
Townshend Duties
(Dickinson,
"Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania")
Dickinson,
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Coercive Acts
Jefferson, "Summary View"
1st Continental Congress, Declaration and Resolutions
Seabury, "Letters of a Westchester Farmer"
Oliver, "Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion"
Wm Franklin, "Your Duty is to Guard and Preserve the Constitution and the Rights
of Your Constituents"
Henry,
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
Declaration of Rebellion
Paine, Common Sense, "On Monarchy"
Mason, 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights
R. H. Lee, Resolutions for Independence, June 1776
Dickinson, "Arguments Against Independence"
Independence,
Letter of J. Adams
Declaration of Independence
James Madison,
Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
Virginia Plan
U. S.
Constitution
George
Mason, Objections to the Proposed Constitution
Madison, Essays
in The Federalist
Patrick Henry, Speeches in the Virginia Ratifying Convention
Judiciary Act
of 1789
Jay Court, On Advisory Opinions
U. S.
Constitution, Bill of Rights
Madison, Essays in the National Gazette
Justice James Iredell’s Dissenting Opinion,
Chisholm v. Georgia
U. S. Constitution,
11th Amendment
Sedition Act
Ruling of Samuel Chase, Callender Trial
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Hamilton's argument, Croswell Trial
Jefferson's Indian Policy
Marshall Court, Marbury v. Madison
Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, Speeches
Madison,
on British Policy
Henry R. Schoolcraft,
Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw ... in the Years
1818 and 1819
Missouri Constitution of 1820
Missouri Compromise Documents
Marshall Court, Sturges v. Crowninshield
Marshall
Court, McCulloch v. Maryland
Marshall Court, Barron v. Baltimore
Andrew
Jackson
Jackson, Bank Veto Message
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Declaration
Taney Court, Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge
Joseph Story, Dissent, Charles River Bridge case
Taney
Court, Swift v.
Tyson
Thomas Hart Benton,
The Destiny of the Race
Thomas Hart Benton, Thirty
Years View, selections
Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the 4th of July?
John S. Phelps, Speech on the Atlantic and
Pacific Railroad
Accounts of the Shootout
between Wild Bill Hickock and Dave Tutt
Documents in Early American History
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