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Excerpts from
The Mayflower Compact
Excerpts from
The Magna Carta

Principles of US Government: Primary Documents to Read 

Below you will find links to digital exerpts or full text primary documents and supporting texts to read and to consider as you develop your lessons. For studnets, this is a great place to access a digital copy of the texts for assignments or projects. 

Principles of US Government: Primary Documents to Consider: 
Virgina Statue of Religious Freedom, 1786
Jean Jacques Rousseau's
The Social Contract
Excerpts from The English Bill of Rights
John Locke's
Two Treatises of Civil Government
Excerpts from
The Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
Excerpts from the Federalist Papers
(1,9,10,39,51,78)
Alexis De Tocqueville's
Democracy in America
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Ballot or the Bullet Speech
Malcom X
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