Forging these United States

Thomas Jefferson's America

Marbury v Madison

1803 Supreme Court decision that established judicial review

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Roger C Weightman, June 24, 1826

Thomas Jefferson’s last public letter from 1826

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes (1820)

Thomas Jefferson, December 8, 1801 First Annual Message

The 'Era of Good Feelings'

James Monroe, March 4, 1817 First Inaugural Address

John Quincy Adams, March 4, 1825 Inaugural Address

James Monroe, December 2, 1823 Seventh Annual Message (Monroe Doctrine)

Jackson's Democracy

James Madison, On the Nullifying Doctrine, 1830

South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification (1832)

Andrew Jackson, Proclamation Regarding Nullification, 1832

The Slaveholding Republic

Declaration of Sentiments of the American Antislavery Society, William Lloyd Garrison

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