Forging U.S. Democracy

This is a unique collection of U.S. Government legal documents that shaped and built the American democracy. From the Declaration of Independence to the Civil Rights Act of 1968, this collection contains 40 most important acts and decisions which forged the legal system and democratic principles of USA:

Declaration of Independence (1776)

U.S. Constitution (1787)

Bill of Rights (1791)

Amendments (1792-1991)

The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

The Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)

Treaty of Ghent (1814)

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

Gettysburg Address (1863)

The Civil Rights Act of 1866

Treaty of Fort Laramie/Sioux Treaty (1868)

The Enforcement Act of 1870

The Second Enforcement Act of 1871 (Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Interstate Commerce Act (1887)

Dawes Act (1887)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 (1916)

President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Point Program (1918)

National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)

Social Security Act (1935)

Lend-Lease Act (1941)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Civil Rights Act of 1960

Establishment of the Peace Corps (1961)

Test Ban Treaty (1963)

Equal Pay Act of 1963

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)

Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964)

Voting Rights Act (1965)

Loving v. Virginia (1967)

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978