Documents of Liberty - PowerPoints
 Frameworks for America's Past

 


Famous Documents of
American Liberty


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   The Declaration of Independence   8 MB


   The Articles of Confederation   6 MB


   The U.S. Constitution: An introduction   10 MB


  You can learn more about the origins of our ideas about liberty and democracy with these additional PowerPoint presentations:
 

   The First Democracies  2 MB


   The Magna Carta: A foundation for liberty  5 MB
 

   Jamestown and the Charters of the Virginia Company of London  6 MB
 

  
George Mason and the Virginia Declaration of Rights  5 MB


   The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom  4 MB 





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