Dept. of Foreign Affairs Est. July 27, 1789

Adams' Address to Congress Regarding the Conflict with France May 16 1797

From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia October 11 1798

Congress' Declaration Replying to the King's Proclamation December 6, 1775

Memorial to the House of Lords October 22, 1765

An Act for laying a Duty on Goods, Wares, and Merchandises imported into the United States July 4, 1789

An Act to Regulate the Time and Manner of Administering Certain Oaths

Washington's Letter to Madison of His Support for the Bill of Rights

Lend-Lease Act

United States v. Darby

Drafted principally by Thomas Jefferson, with assistance from David Howell of Rhode Island and Jeremiah Townley Chase of Maryland, the Ordinance of 1784 was adopted by the Confederation Congress by a 22–2 vote on April 23, 1784. It established a framework for dividing the western territory into future states, providing for temporary governments and eventual admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original states.

A Proclamation for settling the Plantation of Virginia | March 27, 1625

James I Proclamation Prohibiting Disorderly Trading to New England

Martin Luther's 95 Theses

Utopia — Thomas More

George Wallace Inaugural Address for Alabama Governor

Laws Divine, Moral, and Martial - Sir Thomas Dale 1612

Thomas Jefferson's Letter on the Missouri Compromise April 22, 1820

Cooper v. Aaron Decided September 12, 1958

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)