Suggested Political Documents

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• The Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1780 BCE)
• “The Ten Commandments” (ca. 1290 BCE)
• Magna Carta (1215)
• “The Mayflower Compact” (1620)
• “The Virginia Declaration of Rights” (1776)
• The Original Virginia Constitution (1776)
• The Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom (1786)
• The Constitution of the United States (1787, 1789)
• The Federalist Papers #10, 54, 78 (1787)
• The Bill of Rights (1791)
• Constitutional Amendments 11-27
• Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, et al. (1848)
• The Gettysburg Address (1863)
• Chief Joseph Speaks, selected speeches and excerpts (1870s)
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
• I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)
• European Convention on Human Rights (1966)
• Declaration of Democratic Values (1984)
• The World Justice Project Rule of Law Index (2015)