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Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments James Madison [1785] To the Honorable the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia We the subscribers, citizens of the said Commonwealth, having taken into serious consideration, a Bill

"I HAVE A DREAM" Martin Luther King - Aug. 28, 1963 I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose s

"In the name of womanhoodand humanity..."Geov Parrish - 05.05.05 The radical origins of Mother’s Day: Julia Ward Howe's strident call for women to oppose the wars of men Two years ago in this space, I took the occasion of an upcoming Mot

Monsters to DestroyJohn Quincy Adams - 1821 And now, friends and countrymen, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the invent

Despotism & Democracy   Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films - 1946Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrate

The New Colossus - Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of

FEDERALIST PAPERS - Federalist No. 1 - General Introduction For the Independent Journal. Author: Alexander Hamilton - To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government,

Now I think it's time for a little refresher course for some of our "distinguished" (gag) leaders and clueless citizens ... lessons they should have learned from past history. Particularly the parts about religious persecution, flag worshipping, fasc

During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil r

The Federal Convention convened in the State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, to revise the Articles of Confederation. Because the delegations from only two states were at first present, the members adjourned from day to day

Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expr