The Corner Stone Speech

Alexander H. Stephens

1861

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Benjamin R. Curtis, John McLean & Roger Taney

1857

Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise

Abraham Lincoln

1854

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

Frederick Douglass

1852

Speech on the Oregon Bill

John C. Calhoun

1848

Speech to Congress

James Tallmadge Jr.

1819

The Northwest Ordinance

Confederation Congress

1787

The Three-Fifths Clause

Constitutional Convention

1787

Commonwealth v. Nathaniel Jennison

William Cushing

1783

Speech at Springfield, Illinois

Stephen A. Douglas

1858