Federalist 64

John Jay & Publius

1788

Federalist 1

Alexander Hamilton & Publius

1787

Reflections on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution

Thurgood Marshall

1987

The Civil Rights Cases

Joseph P. Bradley

1883

Speech on the Proposed Civil Rights Bill

Robert Brown Elliott

1874

Centinel V

Samuel Bryan

1787

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