Suggested Political Documents:

 
The Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1780 BCE)
“The Ten Commandments” (ca. 1290 BCE)
Magna Carta (1215)
“The Mayflower Compact” (1620)
“The Virginia Declaration of Rights” (1776)
The Original Virginia Constitution (1776)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1786)
The Constitution of the United States (1787, 1789)
The Federalist Papers #10 (1787)
The Federalist Papers #78 (1788)
The Bill of Rights (1791)
Constitutional Amendments 11-27
Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, et al. (1848)
The Gettysburg Address (1863)
Chief Joseph Speaks, selected speeches and excerpts (1870s)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)

 

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