• United States Constitution (correct version with annotations and links), United States Constitution (official, but incorrect version), Annotated United States Constitution (annotations of Cases Decided by the U.S. Supreme Court prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress)

• Declaration of Independence

• Anti-Federalist Papers

• Federalist Papers

• Articles of Confederation

• First 12 articles recommended for the Bill of Rights (see also James Madison's speech)

• Magna Carta (1215), Magna Carta (another translation)

• Northwest Ordinance (1787)

• Common Sense, by Thomas Payne (1776)

• The Crisis by Thomas Paine (1776-1783)

• Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)

• De Officiis, by Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville

• "Divine Judgements Upon Tyrants," excerpts from a sermon delivered by Jacob Cushing at Lexington on April 20, 1778, commemorating the Battle of Lexington.

• George Washington's Farewell Address

• The Law, by Frederick Bastiat

• The Republic, by Plato (Circa 360 B.C.E.)

• Rights of Man, by Thomas Paine (1791-1792)

• Thoughts on Government, by John Adams

• Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death, speech by Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

• Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau

• U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

• Excellent site on Revolutionary War, founders, additional documents, etc. (The Revolutionary War)

• Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics

• Madison's speech on Bill of Rights

• First Inaugural Address, by Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801

• Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (1794, 1796)

• National Bank Veto Message, by Andrew Jackson, July 10, 1832

• Additional documents & resources (Constitution.org)

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