"If men were angels, no government would be necessary." James Madison
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Proclamation of Neutrality George Washington Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln Affirmative Action Lyndon Johnson Federalism Bill Clinton
1812 War Message James Madison 1898 War Message William McKinley 1917 War Message (WWI) Woodrow Wilson 1941 Message (WWII) Franklin Roosevelt FDR's Radio Address to the Nation Statements of Military Action (Undeclared Wars) Peace Without Conquest Lyndon Johnson Serbia 1999 Bill Clinton
1812 War Message James Madison 1898 War Message William McKinley 1917 War Message (WWI) Woodrow Wilson 1941 Message (WWII) Franklin Roosevelt FDR's Radio Address to the Nation
Statements of Military Action (Undeclared Wars) Peace Without Conquest Lyndon Johnson Serbia 1999 Bill Clinton
The Monroe Doctrine James Monroe First "Open Door" Note Sec. State John Hay Fourteen Points Speech Woodrow Wilson Four Freedoms Franklin D. Roosevelt The Truman Doctrine Harry S. Truman
Declaration of War (WWII) The War Powers Resolution Line Item Veto
The War Inevitable Patrick Henry Boston Massacre Oration John Hancock Disapproving and Accepting the Constitution Benjamin Franklin Farewell Address George Washington Monsters to Destroy John Q. Adams The Great Nation of Futurity John L. O'Sullivan Address before the Springfield Washington Temperance Society Abraham Lincoln What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass Cooper Institute Address Abraham Lincoln A Plea for Free Speech in Boston Frederick Douglass Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln The Altruist in Politics Benjamin Cardozo Congressional Record on Expansion Senator Albert J. Beveridge I Have a Dream Martin Luther King, Jr. The Challenger Disaster Ronald Reagan Senate Floor Speech Sen. Joseph Lieberman regarding the "Ongoing Investigation of President Clinton" Not Yours To Give Col. David Crockett
Marbury v. Madison 1803 McCulloch v. Maryland 1819 Dred Scott v. Sandford 1856 Reynolds v. U.S. 1878 Sparf & Hansen v. U.S. 1895 Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 Schenck v. U.S. 1919 Grovey v. Townsend 1935 West Virginia v. Barnette 1943 U.S. v. Lovett 1946 Brown v. Board of Education 1954 Brown II 1955 Engel v. Vitale 1962 Gideon v. Wainwright 1963 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan 1964 Griswold v. Connecticut 1965 Miranda v. Arizona 1966 U.S. v. O'Brien 1968 Tinker v. Des Moines 1969 Lemon v. Kurtzman 1971 New York Times v. United States 1971 Branzburg v. Hayes 1972 Perry v. Sindermann 1972 Roe v. Wade 1973 Roe v. Wade: Dissent, Rehnquist Buckley v. Valeo 1976 Mt. Healthy City Board of Ed. v. Doyle 1977 Board of Regents v. Bakke 1978 Crawford v. Los Angeles Board of Education 1982 Employment Division v. Smith 1988 U.S. v. Lopez 1995 Agostini v. Felton 1997
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The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Notes by James Madison Federalist Papers Jay, Hamilton & Madison AntiFederalist Papers Second Treatise of Civil Government John Locke (1690) Abraham Lincoln James Russell Lowell Common Sense Thomas Paine