Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776
Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments by James Madison | June 20, 1785
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom by Thomas Jefferson | January 16, 1786
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison | 1787
Constitution of the United States September 17, 1787
Brutus I by Brutus | October 18, 1787
Federalist No. 1 by Publius (Alexander Hamilton) | October 27, 1787
Brutus II by Brutus | November 1, 1787
Federalist No. 10 by Publius (James Madison) | November 22, 1787
Federalist No. 51 by Publius (James Madison) | February 6, 1788
Speech on Amendments to the Constitution by James Madison | June 8, 1789
Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport by George Washington | August 21, 1790
Bill of Rights December 15, 1791
“Property” by James Madison | March 29, 1792
Farewell Address by George Washington | September 19, 1796
First Inaugural Address by Thomas Jefferson | March 4, 1801
Marbury v. Madison by Chief Justice Marshall (Opinion of the Court) | February 24, 1803
Letter to John Holmes by Thomas Jefferson | April 22, 1820
Monroe Doctrine by James Monroe | December 2, 1823
Letter to Henry Lee by Thomas Jefferson | May 8, 1825
Letter to Roger C. Weightman by Thomas Jefferson | June 24, 1826
The Webster-Hayne Debates by Daniel Webster and Robert Y. Hayne | January 1830
Fort Hill Address by John C. Calhoun | July 26, 1831
Veto Message of the Bill on the Bank of the United States by Andrew Jackson | July 10, 1832
Proclamation Regarding Nullification by Andrew Jackson | December 10, 1832
Speech on the Oregon Bill by John C. Calhoun | June 27, 1848
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass | July 5, 1852
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise by Abraham Lincoln | October 16, 1854
Dred Scott v. Sandford by Chief Justice Taney (Opinion of the Court) | March 6, 1857
Fragment on the Constitution and Union by Abraham Lincoln | January 1861
“Corner Stone” Speech by Alexander H. Stephens | March 21, 1861
Final Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln | January 1, 1863
Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln | November 19, 1863
Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States by Abraham Lincoln | February 1, 1865
Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln | March 4, 1865
Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln by Frederick Douglass | April 14, 1876
Plessy v. Ferguson by Justice Brown (Opinion of the Court) | May 18, 1896
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine by Theodore Roosevelt | December 6, 1904
New Nationalism Speech by Theodore Roosevelt | August 31, 1910
Progressive Party Platform of 1912 August 7, 1912
“Fourteen Points” Message by Woodrow Wilson | January 8, 1918
Speech on the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence by Calvin Coolidge | July 5, 1926
Commonwealth Club Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt | September 23, 1932
Speech on the Consequences of the Proposed New Deal by Herbert Hoover | October 31, 1932
1944 State of the Union Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt | January 11, 1944
The Long Telegram by George Kennan | February 22, 1946
“I Have a Dream” Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. | August 28, 1963
“Great Society” Speech by Lyndon B. Johnson | May 22, 1964