Historical Links
Many of our links are to the US Government Archives or Our Documents. We encourage you use these resources to learn more about our heritage.
- The Mayflower Compact
- Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions (1765)
- Declaration of Rights and Grievances (1765)
- Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
- The Declaration of Independence (1776)
- America’s Founding Fathers
- Articles of Confederation (1777)
- Virginia Plan (1787)
- The U.S. Constitution (1787)
- The Federalist Papers, No. 10 & 51 (1787-1788)
- President George Washington’s First Inaugural Speech (1789)
- The Charters of Freedom
- The Bill of Rights (1791)
- President George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
- Kentucky Resolutions (1798)
- Virginia Resolutions (1798)
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
- Missouri Compromise (1820)
- Monroe Doctrine (1823)
- Compromise of 1850 (1850)
- Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
- The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Abolition of Slavery (13th Amendment)
- Civil Rights, 14th Amendment (1868)
- Voting Rights, 15th Amendment (1870)
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
- Federal Income Tax, 16th Amendment (1913)
- Social Security Act (1965)
- Civil Rights Act, (1964)
- Voting Rights Act, (1965)
- Virginia Constitution
