The USA's Founding Documents

the Sources of their Precepts and expressions of their Concepts     
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Common Sense by Thomas PaineThe Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithThe Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin FranklinThe American Crisis by Thomas PaineThe Articles of ConfederationNotes on the Debates in the Federal (Constitutional) ConventionThe Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, and JayThe Constitution of the United States of America

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The Republic by Plato (380 BC) [Project Gutenberg]
   

Areopagitica by John Milton (1644)

eBook via (Project Gutenberg) (Asd-Blog)

 

Code of 1650 by Roger Ludlow [Google Books]

Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1651) [Project Gutenberg]

Two Treatises of Government by John Locke (1689)

pdf eBook via (Bristol University.uk) (Asd-Blog)

A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke (1689)
read online via (Constitution.org)

Spirit of Laws by Charles De Montesquieu (1748)  
read online via [Constitution.org] 

Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
Read It Online, Free (USHistoryt.org)

The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)  
Read It Online @ (BiblioMania.com)

The [American] Crisis by Thomas Paine (1776)

Read Online @ (WikiSource.org)

 Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)

(Constiution.org) (Asd-Blog)

The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Read About @ (Wikipedia.org) 

First Draft by Jefferson and John Adams (Wikisource.org)

Final Draft edited by Ben Franklin(Wikisource.org) (Asd -Blog)

Bill No. 82 The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom 

and 
Bill No. 84 A Bill for Punishing Disturbers of Religious Worship and Sabbath Breakers
by Thomas Jefferson (1777) (Asd-Blog)

The Articles Of Confederation (1777-1781) 
Read Online @ (WikiSource.org) (Asd -Blog)

 

Notes on the Constitutional Convention (1787)

Read Online @ (Avalon.law.Yale.edu) (Constitution.org)

The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)

Read Online @(Thomas.LibraryOfCongress.gov) (Asd-Blog) 

The United States Constitution (1791)

Read Online @ (US Constitution.net) 

(Asd-Blog)

Anti-Slavery Opinions Before the Year 1800 by William Frederick Poole and George Buchanan (1799) [Project Gutenberg]

An Oration Delivered Before The Town Of Newburyport By John Quincy Adams (July 4 1837) [Archive.org]

Democracy In America by Alexis De Tocqueville (1835)
[Project Gutenberg Volume 1 and Volume 2]
   

Walden by Henry David Thoreau  (1854) [Project Gutenberg]

On Liberty by John Stuart Mills (1859) [Project Gutenberg]
  

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