Documents of Freedom
For centuries, humans have attempted to codify the rights, privileges, responsibilities, and freedoms each person has in a society. This Reading Set is a collection of some of the most important documents in this ongoing quest to form “a more perfect union.”
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(5) Passages included in this Reading Set:
The Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was a document written and sig...
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was the document ado...
The U.S. Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. These amendments were finally ratified in 1791...
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, written in 1789, is the core document of the French Revolution, establishing ...
The Emancipation Proclamation
In the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lin...