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Letter of Transmital [1787]
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Before 1776
Code of Hammurabi [circa 1727-1680 BC]
Ten Commandments [circa 1447 BC]
Constitutions of Clarendon [1164]
Magna Carta [1215]
Declaration of Arbroath [1320]
Privileges and Prerogatives Granted to Christopher Columbus [1492]
Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh [1584]
Colonial Charters [1606-1732]
Mayflower Compact [1620]
Surrender of the Great Charter of New England [1635]
Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven [1639]
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut [1639]
Settlers Agreement, Exeter, New Hampshire [1639]
Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England [1643]
Maryland Toleration Act [1649]
First Thanksgiving Proclamation [1676]
English Bill of Rights [1689]
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke [1689]
War For Independence
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress [1765]
Declaration and Resolves [1774]
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! - Patrick Henry [1775]
Causes and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms [1775]
Virginia Declaration of Rights [1776]
Declaration of Independence [1776]
Samuel Adams Advocates American Independence [1776]
Common Sense - Thomas Paine [1776]
1783 - 1860
George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation [1789]
Washington's Farewell Address [1796]
Not Yours To Give - Davy Crockett [1827-1835, 1884]
War Between The States
1865 - Present

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The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-17, NKJV

And God spoke all these words, saying:

"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

"You shall have no other gods before Me.

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

"You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

"You shall not murder.

"You shall not commit adultery.

"You shall not steal.

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

Deuteronomy 5:1-21, NKJV

And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your hearing today, that you may learn them and be careful to observe them. The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive. The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire. I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire, and you did not go up the mountain. He said:

"'I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

"'You shall have no other gods before Me.

"'You shall not make for yourself a carved image -- any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

"'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

"'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

"'Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may be well with you in the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

"'You shall not murder.

"'You shall not commit adultery.

"'You shall not steal.

"'You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

"'You shall not covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, his male servant, his female servant, his ox, his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.'"