Inaugural Address (1797)
John Adams, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/200429 WHEN it was first perceived, in early times, that no middle course for […]
Shays’ Rebellion
1. An address to the people of the several towns in the county of Hampshire, now it arms. Gentlemen, We have thought proper to inform you of some of the […]
The Congress Sends Twelve Amendments to the States
Source: The Essential Bill of Rights, ed. Gordon Lloyd and Margie Lloyd, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998), 353-355. Article the first . . . After the first enumeration […]
House Debates Select Committee Report
THURSDAY, August 13 The House then resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole, Mr. BOUDINOT in the Chair, and took the amendments under consideration. The first article ran thus: […]
Letter from John Adams to To H. Niles (1818)
The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe. And when and where are they to […]
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (1785)
“From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 October 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/ud04. DEAR SIR, — Seven o’clock, and retired to my fireside, I have determined to enter into conversation […]
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Legislature of Vermont (1807)
I received in due season the address of the legislature of Vermont, bearing date the 5th of November, 1806, in which, with their approbation of the general course of my […]
Declaration of War, 1812
An Act Declaring War Between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Dependencies Thereof and the United States of America and Their Territories. Be it enacted by […]
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
“An Act for establishing religious Freedom.” Encyclopedia Virginia, Primary Documents. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/96jb. Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by […]
Of the Natural Rights of Individuals
We have now viewed the whole structure of government; we have now ranged over its numerous apartments and divisions and we have examined the materials of which it is formed. […]