Documents: Enlightenment, individual rights, the rise of the
Revolution, and the founding of the American Nation
English
Bill of Rights, 1689
First
Charter of Virginia, 1606
Fundamental
Orders (Connecticut), 1639
Mayflower
Compact, 1620
Magna
Carta, 1215
The Royal
Proclamation - October 7, 1763
Rights
of Man by Thomas Paine; 1792
Resolutions
of the Congress of October 19, 1765
Thomas
Paine, 1776
Declaration
of Independence, 1776
Virginia
Declaration of Rights; June 12, 1776
Declarations
and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774
Declaration
of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, 1775
Patrick
Henry - Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death; March 23, 1775
Federalist
Papers, 1787-88
United States
Constitution
Washington's
Proclamation on The Whiskey Rebellion - August 7, 1794
John Locke,
1
John
Locke, 2
Baron
de Montesquieu, 1
Baron de Montesquieu,
2
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, 1
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, 2