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Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

An edited and simplified version of President Lincoln's First Inaugural Address.

Federalist 38, The Incoherence of the Objections to the Constitution

Madison analyzes some of the objections to the Constitution.

The Cornerstone Speech, Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy

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William Pitt's Speech Against the Stamp Act. January 14, 1766

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Anti-Federalist 7, Adoption of the Constitution Will Lead to Civil War

A Summary View of the Rights of British America

This was written by Thomas Jefferson as a recommendation of what the Continental Congress could send to the king. 

Brutus I, October 18, 1787

Edited version of Robert Yates' Anti-Federalist paper.