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This nation.com: Magna Carta
This site provides the full text (as translated from the Latin) of the Magna Carta, signed by King John of England, June 15, 1215.
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This nation.com: Mayflower Compact
This site provides the full text of the agreement between the settlers at New Plymouth, 1620.
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This nation.com: Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress
This site provides the full text of the resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress.
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This nation.com: Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774
This site provides the full text of the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 1774.
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This nation.com: Articles of Confederation
This site provides the full text of the Articles of Confederation.
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This nation.com: Constitution of the United States
This site provides the full text of the Constitution of the United States of America.
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This nation.com: Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms
This site provides the declaration by the representatives of the United Colonies of North America in which they set forth the "Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms."
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This Nation: Gettysburg Address
ThisNation site provides the full text of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address that was given on November 19, 1863. (A printer friendly version)
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This nation.com: United States v. Lovett
ThisNation.com offers text of the opinion of the court delivered by Mr. Justice Black for the Supreme Court case, United States v. Lovett, 1946.
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This nation.com: A Plea for Free Speech in Boston
This site from the Douglass Archive provides the text of Frederick Douglass's speech "A Plea for Free Speech in Boston."
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This nation.com: Brown v. Board of Education 2 (1955)
This site from ThisNation.com provides Chief Justice Earl Warren's full text of the Supreme Court's decision in this landmark case.
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This nation.com: Amendments to the u.s. Constitution
This site provides the text of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The first ten are the Bill of Rights.
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This Nation: Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)
Read the text of the Proclamation of Neutrality issued by George Washington in April, 1793, showing his effort to keep his new nation safe from unhealthy alliances.
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This natiton.com: "Boston Massacre Oration" Hancock
The text of John Hancock's speech delivered on March 5, 1774, the fourth anniversary of the Boston Massacre of Colonists by British soldiers.
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This nation.com: Citizens in the American Political System
Contains information on becoming a U.S. citizen and how citizens can participate in the government.
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This nation.com's Library: "Abraham Lincoln" by James Russell Lowell Full Text
ThisNation site provides the full text of James Russell Lowell's "Abraham Lincoln". This is a printer friendly version!
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This nation.com: "Emancipation Proclamation" Abraham Lincoln
This Nation site provides the full text of President Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" which freed slaves.
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This nation.com: Letter of Transmittal
This site provides the letter of the president of the Federal Convention to the president of Congress, transmitting the Constitution.