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This nation.com: Magna Carta

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the full text (as translated from the Latin) of the Magna Carta, signed by King John of England, June 15, 1215.
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This nation.com: Mayflower Compact

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the full text of the agreement between the settlers at New Plymouth, 1620.
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This nation.com: Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the full text of the resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress.
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This nation.com: Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the full text of the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 1774.
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This nation.com: Articles of Confederation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the full text of the Articles of Confederation.
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This nation.com: Constitution of the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the full text of the Constitution of the United States of America.
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This nation.com: Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the declaration by the representatives of the United Colonies of North America in which they set forth the "Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms."
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This Nation: Gettysburg Address

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
ThisNation site provides the full text of President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address that was given on November 19, 1863. (A printer friendly version)
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This nation.com: United States v. Lovett

For Students 9th - 10th
ThisNation.com offers text of the opinion of the court delivered by Mr. Justice Black for the Supreme Court case, United States v. Lovett, 1946.
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This nation.com: A Plea for Free Speech in Boston

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Douglass Archive provides the text of Frederick Douglass's speech "A Plea for Free Speech in Boston."
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This nation.com: Brown v. Board of Education 2 (1955)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from ThisNation.com provides Chief Justice Earl Warren's full text of the Supreme Court's decision in this landmark case.
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This nation.com: Amendments to the u.s. Constitution

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the text of all the amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The first ten are the Bill of Rights.
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This Nation: Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the text of the Proclamation of Neutrality issued by George Washington in April, 1793, showing his effort to keep his new nation safe from unhealthy alliances.
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This natiton.com: "Boston Massacre Oration" Hancock

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of John Hancock's speech delivered on March 5, 1774, the fourth anniversary of the Boston Massacre of Colonists by British soldiers.
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This nation.com: Citizens in the American Political System

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains information on becoming a U.S. citizen and how citizens can participate in the government.
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This nation.com's Library: "Abraham Lincoln" by James Russell Lowell Full Text

For Students 9th - 10th
ThisNation site provides the full text of James Russell Lowell's "Abraham Lincoln". This is a printer friendly version!
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This nation.com: "Emancipation Proclamation" Abraham Lincoln

For Students 9th - 10th
This Nation site provides the full text of President Abraham Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" which freed slaves.
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This nation.com: Letter of Transmittal

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the letter of the president of the Federal Convention to the president of Congress, transmitting the Constitution.