- Common Sense (1776)
- The Federalist Papers (1784-1788)
- Northwest Ordinance (1787)
- Seneca Falls “Declaration of Sentiments” (1848)
- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Gettysburg Address (1863)
- Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1868)
- Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918)
- George C. Marshall’s Marshall Plan speech (1947)
- Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech (1963)
BTW, the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights have been excluded from the list.
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In the practical sense, the Fourteenth rules all modern American life. Nothing else is close.
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