Documents of Anglo-American Freedom
532 pages, plastic comb-bound, retype-set and
edited by Robert Alan Balaicius
includes 28 color reproduction pages on photographic paper of some of the originals.
Contains the entire texts of:
- The Magna Charta (1215),
- The Declaration of Arboath (1320),
- The Dutch Declaration of Independence (1581),
- For The Colony in Virginea Britannia Lavves Diuine, Morall and Martiall, &c. (1612),
- The Mayflower Compact (1620),
- The Petition of Right (1628),
- The Scottish National Covenant (1638) and The Solemn League and Covenant (1643),
- The Body of Liberties (1641),
- Governor John Winthrop’s "Little Speech" on Liberty (1645),
- The Agreement of the People (1649),
- The Instrument of Government (1653),
- The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669),
- The Charlestown, Massachusetts Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676),
- The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania (1682),
- The [English] Bill of Rights (1689),
- An Essay Towards Present and Future Peace of Europe, William Penn (1693),
- The Law of Nature in Government [excerpts] (1717),
- The Virginia Resolves (1765),
- George Washington’s General Orders to the Continental Army (1756-1775), - The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress (1765),
- The Rights of the Colonists (1772),
- The Fairfax County Resolves (1774),
- The Prayer of Congress (1774),
- The Declaration of the First Continental Congress (1774),
- Fast Day Proclamation (1776),
- The Constitution of Virginia, Bill of Rights,
- The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776),
- The Declaration of Independence (1776),
- The Thanksgiving Day Proclamation (1777),
- The Articles of the Confederation and Perpetual Union (1778),
- Thanksgiving Day Proclamation (1782),
- The Northwest Ordinance (1784),
- Benjamin Franklin’s Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer (1787),
- The United States Constitution (1787),
- Letter of Transmittal (of the Continental Congress) (1787),
- Letter of Transmittal (of the Continental Congress to the President of Congress) (1787),
- The Amendments to the U.S. Constitution (1-10, a.k.a. the Bill of Rights) (1789),
- George Washington’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation (1789),
- John Adam’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation (1798),
- Jonathan Trumbull’s Thanksgiving Day Proclamation (1807),
- James Madison’s Humiliation and Prayer Fast Proclamation (1812),
- James Buchanan’s Humiliation and Prayer Fast Proclamation (1860);
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These documents are important for understanding our historical freedom as well as our future prospects of freedom.