After the Civil War, the challenges presented by a developing industrial economy helped to encourage…
Source: Woodrow Wilson, “Leaders of Men,” in Leaders of Men, ed. T. H. Vail Motter…
Source: Theodore Roosevelt, “The Right of the People to Rule,” Outlook 100 (March 1912): 618–23,…
Source: 514 U.S. 549 (1995); https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1260.ZO.html Chief Justice REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court,…
Source: 71 U.S. 2; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/71/2 Justice DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court, joined by…
Source: Speech of John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, upon the Right of the People, Men…
Source: CIRCULAR: Addressed to Benevolent Ladies of the United States . . . [Boston]: [Printed…
This volume presents 25 core decisions of the Supreme Court. Arranged in chronological order, they…
Source: Woodrow Wilson, “Party Government in the United States,” in Constitutional Government in the United…
Source: “For the National Gazette, [ca. 23 January] 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-14-02-0176. [Editor’s…
Source: Farewell Address, George Washington, September 19, 1796. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T.…
Source: Congressional Record, 93rd Congress, 1st Session, Nov. 7, 1973. Vol. 119, pp. 36176–36198, 36202–36222.…
Source: The Federalist. Gideon Edition, eds. George W. Carey and James McClellan (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,…
Source: Charles E. Merriam, A History of American Political Theories (London: Macmillan, 1903), 305–33, available…
Source: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (London: John Stockdale, 1787), 270–75. https://archive.org/details/notesonstateofvi1787jeff/page/270…
A. George F. Kennan to the Secretary of State (The Long Telegram), February 22, 1946…
A. Lydia Maria Child, Governor Henry Wise of Virginia, and John Brown, Correspondence, October 1859…
A. American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sentiments, December 6, 1833 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+1/ch12/ch12+American+AntiSlavery+Society+1833.mp3 The Convention assembled in…
A.(Robert Yates), Brutus I, October 18, 1787 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+1/ch7/ch7+Brutus+I.mp3 . . . We have felt the…
Amendment I. Ratified December 15, 1791 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…
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…
Of the many direct and contributing causes of the Civil War, two stand near the…
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…
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