Foundational+American+Documents

All texts listed below are a part of the Common Core document and are not listed in the Holt Literature textbook. Links are to online versions and where possible, helpful information.

The Declaration of Independence
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Student-produced song: media type="youtube" key="vk5YP8Br7lo" height="720" width="1280"

**"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine (1776)**
 * Background of "Common Sense" and Thomas Paine
 * Entire text of "Common Sense"

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**The Constitution of the United States (1787)** media type="youtube" key="Q_TXJRZ4CFc?rel=0" height="355" width="430"media type="custom" key="10247457" width="290" height="290"
 * Online text

**The Federalist papers (1788)** //Examine premises, purposes, arguments//
 * Summaries of all Federalist papers
 * Federalist #10 (James Madison) (How does he define faction?)
 * Online text in its entirety

**The Bill of Rights (1791)**
 * Background and online text

**Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln (1865)**


 * Online text - Bartleby.com
 * Online text - The History Place

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Supreme Court majority opinions and dissents** //Examine application of constitutional principles and the use of legal reasoning//

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Marbury v. Madison (1803) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Miranda v. Arizona (1966) Texas v. Johnson (1989) United States v. Nixon (1973)
 * Student Speech, Symbolic Speech
 * Judicial Review, Federalism
 * Self-Incrimination, Due Process
 * Flag Burning, Freedom of Speech
 * Watergate, Checks and Balances

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**"Society and Solit****ude" by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857)**

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<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Presidential Addresses** //Examine premises, purposes, arguments//