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Dred Scott v. Sandford

Benjamin R. Curtis, John McLean & Roger Taney

1857

Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise

Abraham Lincoln

1854

On the Constitution and the Union

William Lloyd Garrison

1832

“Memorial” and “Constitutional Equality”

Victoria Woodhull

1871

Address Accepting Democratic Presidential Nomination

William Jennings Bryan

1900

Downes v. Bidwell

Edward D. White & Henry Billings Brown

1901

Speech on the Constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase

Uriah Tracy

1803

“An Address on Female Suffrage”

Catherine Beecher

1870

“Leaders of Men”

Woodrow Wilson

1890

“The Constitution a Reactionary Document”

J. Allen Smith

1907

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