This book contains the entire text of the documents that help shape our country. It covers a wide range of important acts, amendments, treaties, etc.:
Declaration of Independence (1776), U.S. Constitution (1787), Bill of Rights (1791), Additional Amendments (1792 - 1991), The Federalist Papers (1787-1788), Marbury vs. Madison (1803), The Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803), Treaty of Ghent (1814), Monroe Doctrine (1823), Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), Gettysburg Address (1863), Treaty of Fort Laramie/Sioux Treaty (1868), Interstate Commerce Act (1887), Dawes Act (1887) 16. Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890), Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Joint Resolution Annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the U.S.A. (1898), Platt Amendment (1901), Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916, President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Point Program (1918), National Industrial Recovery Act (1933), Social Security Act (1935), Lend-Lease Act (1941), United Nations Charter (1945), Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), President John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961), Establishment of the Peace Corps (1961), Test Ban Treaty (1963), Civil Rights Act (1964), Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964), and Voting Rights Act (1965).