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This six-page chart includes the full, unabridged text of the following landmark documents and speeches from U.S. history, with brief explanatory introductions of each:

• the Declaration of Independence

• the Articles of Confederation 

• the Constitution

• the Bill of Rights and Amendments 11-27

• the Emancipation Proclamation

• the Gettysburg Address

• Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at the March on Washington