Signing the Declaration of Independence From the painting by Charles E. A. Dumaresq

Copyright, 1910
By P. F. COLLIER & SON

Designed, Printed, and Bound at
The Collier Press, New York

Trans to GL 9-19-86

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Ref:
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CONTENTS

THE VOYAGES TO VINLAND (c. 1000) . .

THE LETTER OF COLUMBUS TO LUIS DE SANT ANGEL AN-

NOUNCING HIS DISCOVERY (1493)

AMERIGO VESPUCCI'S ACCOUNT OF HIS FIRST Voyage (1497).

JOHN CABOT'S DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA (1497)

FIRST CHARTER OF VIRGINIA (1606)

THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT (1620)

THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT (1639)

THE MASSACHUSETTS BODY OF LIBERTIES (1641)

ARBITRARY Government DESCRIBED AND THE GOVERNMENT of
THE MASSACHUSETTS VINDICATED FROM THAT Aspersion,
BY JOHN WINTHROP (1644) .

THE INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT (1653)

A HEALING QUESTION, BY SIR HENRY VANE (1656)

JOHN ELIOT'S BRIEF NARRATIVE (1670)

DECLARATION OF RIGHTS (1765) .

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776)

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126

147

THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1775). 166

ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION (1777) .

ARTICLES OF CAPITULATION, YORKTOWN (1781).

TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN (1783) .

THE FEDERALIST, NOS. I AND 2 (1787).

OPINION OF CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL, IN THE CASE OF

MCCULLOCH VS. THE STATE OF MARYLAND (1819)

WASHINGTON'S FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS (1789)

TREATY WITH THE SIX NATIONS (1794) .

WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS (1796)

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222

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250

267

TREATY WITH FRANCE (LOUISIANA PURCHASE) (1803)

TREATY WITH Great Britain (End of War OF 1812) (1814) 273

ARRANGEMENT AS TO THE NAVAL FORCE TO BE RESPECTIVELY

MAINTAINED ON THE AMERICAN LAKES (1817)

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