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Before 1500

• The Magna Carta - 1215

1500s

• Vidinciae Contra Tyrannos (A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants), 1579, by Junius Brutus attributed to Philippe Duplessis-Mornay

1600s

• The First Virginia Charter - April 10, 1606
• The Second Virginia Charter - May 23, 1609
• The Third Virginia Charter - March 12, 1612
• The Mayflower Compact - 1620
• Petition of Right - 1628
• Charter of Massachusetts Bay - 1629
• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut - January 14, 1639
• The Connecticut Colony Charter - 1662
• The First Thanksgiving Day Proclamation - 1789
• English Bill of Rights - 1689

1700s

• The Albany Plan of Union - 1754
• Resolutions of the Stamp Act - October 19, 1765
• The Declaration of Rights - October 14, 1774
• Petition to the King - October 25, 1774
• Pattrick Henry - "Liberty or Death" Speech - March 23, 1775
• The Olive Branch Petition - July 5, 1775
• Declaration of Arms - July 6, 1775
• George III's Proclamation of Rebellion - August 23, 1775
• Continental Congress Recommends the Formation of State Governments - May 10, 1776
• Virginia Bill of Rights - 1776
• Jefferson's Preamble to the Virginia Constitution - June 29, 1776
• The Federalist Papers
• Jefferson's Original Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence
• The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies - July 4, 1776

Contemporary

• We Hold These Truths: A statement of christian conscience and citizenship - July 4, 1997