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The following list of documents gives us a written trail to
follow as man has set about to find a place of freedom and liberty.
Each one expresses the desires of freedom and liberty in various forms.
The
Magna Carta (1215)
The
Mayflower Compact (1620)
The
Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Declaration
of Rights (1774)
Give
Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry (March 23, 1775)
The
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (1775)
The
Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)
The
Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
The
Articles of Confederation (Nov. 15, 1777)
The
Treaty of Paris (1783)
The
Memorial and Remonstrance (June 20, 1785)
The
Annapolis Convention (Sept. 14, 1786)
Letter
of Transmittal of the U.S. Constitution (Sept. 17, 1787)
The
Constitution of the United States. (1787)
The
Northwest Ordinance (July 13, 1787)
First
Inaugural Address of President George Washington (April 30, 1789)
The
First State of the Union Address (Jan. 8, 1790)
Second
Inaugural Address of President George Washington (Mar. 4, 1793)
The
Treaty of Greenville (1795)
Farewell
Address of President George Washington (Sept. 17, 1796)
The
Monroe Doctrine (Dec. 2, 1823)
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