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Suggested Political Documents


  • 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)

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