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Historical Documents
The Declaration of Independence (original draft)
June 1776
The Declaration of Independence (final draft)
4 July 1776
Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" Speech
23 March 1775
How To Change a Republic Into a Monarchy
by Philip Freneau
National Gazette, July 1792
George Washington's Farewell Address
Boston Independent Chronicle, 26 September 1796
The Kentucky Resolutions
10 November 1798
The Virginia Resolutions
2 December 1798
Josiah Quincy's Speech in Opposition to the Bill for the Admission of Louisiana to the Union
Congressional Globe - 14 January 1811
John C. Calhoun's Response to Daniel Webster
Congressional Globe — 26 February 1833
Andrew Jackson's Second Inaugural Address
4 March 1833
Report on the Delivery of Abolition Materials
in the Southern States
House Documents, 24th Congress, First Session (1835)
John C. Calhoun's Speech in the Senate
Congressional Globe — 6 February 1837
Dred Scott v. John A. Sandford
80 U.S. 19 How. 393 (1857)
Ex Parte Merryman
Maryland Circuit Court (1861)
Ordinances of Secession of the Southern States
20 December 1860 - 20 November 1861
Declarations of the Causes of Secession
of the Southern States
24 December 1860 - 2 February 1861
Abraham Lincoln's Address to Congress in Special Session
4 July 1861
Clement L. Vallandigham's Response to Lincoln's Address
to Congress in Special Session
10 July 1861
John C. Breckinridge's Speech in the Senate
25 July 1861
Statements in the House of Representatives on the Creation of the State of West Virginia
9 December 1862
Instructions for the Government of the Armies
of the United States in the Field
General Orders 100 (1863)
Report of General Rufus A. Saxton to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
30 December 1864
Robert Lewis Dabney's Letter to Gen. Oliver O. Howard
Prince Edward County, Virginia, 12 September 1865
Ulysses S. Grant's Report on Conditions in the South
18 December 1865
Testimony of Col. John B. Baldwin Concerning His Interview With Abraham Lincoln on 4 April 1861
Washington, D.C., 10 February 1866
Andrew Johnson's Veto of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill
Washington, D.C., 19 February 1866
Andrew Johnson's Veto of the Civil Rights Bill
Washington, D.C., 27 March 1866
Andrew Johnson's Veto of the First Reconstruction Bill
Washington, D.C., 2 March 1867
Opinion of Attorney General Henry Stanbery on the First Reconstruction Act
Attorney-General's Office, Washington, D.C., 12 June 1867
George William Norris' Speech in the Senate Opposing the Entry of the United States into World War One
Congressional Record - Senate (4 April 1917)
Louis T. McFadden's Speech in the House of Representatives
Congressional Record - House (10 June 1932)
Louis T. McFadden's Speech in the House of Representatives
Congressional Record - House (9 March 1933)
Daniel Reed's Speech on the Social Security Act of 1935
Congressional Record - House (17 April 1935)
The Unconstitutionality of the Fourteenth Amendment
Congressional Record - House (13 June 1967)
Dyett v. Turner
Utah Supreme Court (1968)
Emergency Powers Statutes
Senate Report 93-549 (19 November 1973)
David Stevens v. Stephen Berger
United States District Court, New York, 428 F.Supp. 896 (1977)
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