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• Declaration & Resolves of 1st Continental Congress, 1774, 12k
  
  
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• Constitution Of The United States, 45k
  
  
• Northwest Ordinance, 1787, 20k
  
  
• Jefferson's Report on the Barbery Pirates, 1790, 14k
  
  
• Washington's Farewell Address, 1796, 30k
  
  
• The Monroe Doctrine, 1823, 7k
  
  
• The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, 5k
  
  
• Gettyburg Address, 1863, 2k
  
  
• Prohibition of Alcohol, Implementing Legislation, 1919, 13k
  
  
• President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, 1961, 8k
  
  

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• Gibbons v. Ogden, 1821, Regulating Commerce is more Federal than State Power, 69k
  
  
• Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1856, Slave isn't 'Citizen' but Property with few Rights, 94K, Zip
  
  
• Strauder v. W. Virginia, 1880, 1st Use of Equal Protection Clause for Racial Protection, 25k

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