United States Constitution.
Primary Source Document Name: United States Constitution . We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for […]
Thomas Paine Common Sense
Primary Source Document Name: Common Sense . COMMON SENSE . addressed to the INHABITANTS of AMERICA, . On the following interesting SUBJECTS: . • Of the Origin and Design of Government in general, with concise Remarks on the English Constitution. . • Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession . • Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs . […]
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia – Query XIV
Primary Source Document Name: Notes on The State of Virginia Query XIV . The administration of justice and description of the laws? . The state is divided into counties. In every county are appointed magistrates, called justices of the peace, usually from eight to thirty or forty in number, in proportion to the size of […]
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia – Query 18
Primary Source Document Name: Notes on the State of Virginia Query XVIII It is difficult to determine on the standard by which the manners of a nation may be tried, whether catholic, or particular. It is more difficult for a native to bring to that standard the manners of his own nation, familiarized to him […]
Rousseau’s 2nd Discourse
Primary Source Document Name: Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men Citation: Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) via Kindle
Rousseau’s 1st Discourse
Primary Source Document Name: Discourse that Won the Prize of the Academy of Dijon in the Year 1750 Citation: Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) via Kindle
Patrick Henry Give Me Liberty Speech
Primary Source Document Name: Patrick Henry’s Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death Speech No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope […]
On The Right To Rebel Against Governors
Primary Source Document Name: On The Right To Rebel Against Governors Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work. – Titus iii. 1. The great Creator, having designed the human race for society, has made us dependent on one another for happiness. […]
Northwest Ordinance
An Ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio. Section 1. Be it ordained by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district, subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in […]
Marbury v Madison
. Primary Source Document Name: Marbury v. Madison The clerks of the Department of State of the United States may be called upon to give evidence of transactions in the Department which are not of a confidential character. The Secretary of State cannot be called upon as a witness to state transactions of a confidential […]