This volume of primary documents on the causes of the Civil War presents the history…
Source: Daniel Webster, The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Constitution: Selected Documents, ed. Herman Belz…
Source: William Lloyd Garrison, “The Great Crisis,” The Liberator, 52, 2 (December 29, 1832), 206–207.…
Source: Speech of Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, on the Oregon Bill, Delivered in the…
Source: Congressional Globe, Senate, 33rd Congress, First Session, 281–282, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage. As senators and representatives in…
Source: Congressional Globe, Senate, 33rd Congress, 1st Session, 275–180, http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage80. . . . Upon the…
Source: The Union must and shall be preserved. Air.- Star Spangled Banner. H. De Marsan,…
Source: Edward Burrough, A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the…
Source: Rufus King to Colonel Pickering (November 4, 1803) in Records of the Federal Convention…
[caption id="attachment_23685" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Louis Schultze. Dred Scott, 1888. Public domain, from the Missouri Historical…
Learn about how the Founders sought to formalize their ideas of limited government, a new…
Source: The Bill of Rights: a Transcription, America’s Founding Documents, National Archives, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript. The capitalization…
Source: Senate Journal, First Congress, First Session, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation:…
Source: Congress of the United States In the House of Representatives, Tuesday, the 27th of…
Source: The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, eds. George W. Carey and James McClellan (Indianapolis: Liberty…
Source: The Debates in the several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
There is a strong temptation to consider the story of the U.S. Bill of Rights…
The Colonial Heritage The Massachusetts Body of Liberties, December 1641 The Maryland Act Concerning Religion,…
Source: Sir David Frost, Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews (New York: Harper…
Source: Congressional Record, 80th Congress, First Session, Volume 93, Part 1 (Washington D.C. : United…
Source: Samuel I. Rosenman, ed., Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1937 Volume:…
Source: Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt, ed., Stephen Brennan (New York: Skyhorse Publishing,…
Source: Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Final Version, March 1861, Abraham Lincoln Papers (Series 1: General Correspondence, 1833 to 1916), Library…
Source: James D. Richardson, ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents,…
Source: Register of Debates, Senate, 23rd Congress, First Session (Washington, D.C: Gales and Seaton) 66,…
Source: President George Washington, Proclamation, 7 August 1794, Founders Online, National Archives, https://goo.gl/yu6KcC. Proclamation Calling…
Source: James Madison, Speech on the Removal Power of the President, [16 June] 1789, Founders…
Source: The Federalist No. 65, [7 March 1788], No. 68, [12 March 1788], No. 70,…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Jonathan Elliot, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the…
Source: 1 Annals of Cong. 424-450 (1789). Mr. MADISON. — I will state my reasons…
Source: Gordon Lloyd and Margie Lloyd, eds., The Essential Bill of Rights (Lanham, Maryland: University…
Source: George W. Carey and James McClellan, eds., The Federalist: The Gideon Edition, (Indianapolis: Liberty…
Source: Gordon Lloyd ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Congressional Record, 75th Cong., 3rd sess., vol. 83, pt. 6 (May 16, 1938), pp.…
Source: “Fireside Chat,” April 14, 1938. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The…
Source: Herbert Hoover, Addresses Upon the American Road, 1933-1938 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938),…
Source: Online from “FDR and the Supreme Court,” The New Deal Network (Columbia University: Institute…
Source: Congressional Record, 74th Cong., 1st sess., Vol. 79, pt. 6, pp. 6060-6061. . .…
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