The American Nation: Primary Sources
This volume is a continuation of Frohnen’s earlier collection of primary sources The American Republic. It contains material from the Civil War to the outbreak of World War Two in the Pacific.
The American Nation: Primary Sources, ed. Bruce Frohnen (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008).
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Table of Contents
- EDITORIAL BOARD
- Contents
- Alphabetical Table of Contents
- Alphabetical List of Authors
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Organization of the Work
- Note on the Texts
- PART ONE: The Civil War
- The Crittenden Compromise
- South Carolina Ordinance of Secession
- South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession
- DECLARATION OF THE IMMEDIATE CAUSES WHICH INDUCE AND JUSTIFY THE SECESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA FROM THE FEDERAL UNION.
- Mississippi Ordinance of Secession
- AN ORDINANCE TO DISSOLVE THE UNION BETWEEN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI AND OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER THE COMPACT ENTITLED “THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”
- Mississippi Declaration of Causes of Secession
- A DECLARATION OF THE IMMEDIATE CAUSES WHICH INDUCE AND JUSTIFY THE SECESSION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI FROM THE FEDERAL UNION.
- Virginia Ordinance to Repeal the Ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America
- Missouri Act Declaring the Political Ties Heretofore Existing between the State of Missouri and the United States of America Dissolved
- Ordinance of the Kentucky Convention
- Constitution of the Confederate States of America
- Article I
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- Section 6
- Section 7
- Section 8
- Section 9
- Section 10
- Article II
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Article III
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Article IV
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Article V
- Section 1
- Article VI
- Article VII
- Extract from the Journal of the Congress
- Farewell Speech to the United States Congress
- Inaugural Address
- First Inaugural Address
- Proclamation Calling the Militia and Convening Congress
- Proclamation of Blockade against Southern Ports
- Message to Congress in Special Session
- Proclamation Suspending Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Message to Congress on Gradual Abolishment of Slavery
- Proclamation Revoking General Hunter’s Emancipation Order
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Emancipation Proclamation
- The Gettysburg Address
- Message to the Congress of Confederate States
- Act to Increase the Military Force of the Confederate States
- Last Order
- PART TWO: Reconstruction
- Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
- Veto Message with Wade-Davis Proclamation and Bill
- A Bill to guarantee to certain States whose Governments have been usurped or overthrown a Republican Form of Government.
- Wade-Davis Manifesto
- Special Field Order no. 15
- Second Inaugural Address
- Last Public Address
- Constitution of Indiana, Article XIII
- Black Code of Mississippi
- U.S. Constitution, Thirteenth Amendment
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Freedmen’s Bureau Bill
- Second Freedmen’s Bureau Bill
- Veto of the Second Freedmen’s Bureau Bill
- Civil Rights Act
- First Reconstruction Act of 1867
- Veto of the First Reconstruction Act
- First Supplement to the First Reconstruction Act of 1867
- Second Supplement to the First Reconstruction Act of 1867
- Articles of Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- Article I
- Article II
- Article III
- Article IV
- Article V
- Article VI
- Article VII
- Article VIII
- Article IX
- Article X
- Article XI
- Debate on Proposed Fourteenth Amendment
- RECONSTRUCTION.
- Article —.
- U.S. Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- Section 4
- Section 5
- U.S. Constitution, Fifteenth Amendment
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Enforcement Act of 1870
- Enforcement Act of 1871
- Enforcement Act of 1875
- The Constitution of the State of Mississippi, as Adopted in Convention
- Preamble
- Article I: Bill of Rights
- Article VII: Franchise
- Article VIII: School Fund, Education and Science
- Slaughter-House Cases
- Inaugural Address
- Civil Rights Cases
- Constitution of the State of Mississippi
- Article VIII: Education
- Article XII: Franchise
- PART THREE: Consolidating Markets
- The Homestead Act
- The Pacific Railway Act
- The Morrill Act
- The Gospel of Wealth
- THE PROBLEM OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF WEALTH
- Cross of Gold Speech
- First Inaugural Address
- First Annual Message
- Lochner v. New York
- ERROR TO THE COUNTY COURT OF ONEIDA COUNTY, STATE OF NEW YORK
- PART FOUR: Consolidating Culture?
- Twelfth Annual Report of the Massachusetts State School Board
- Moral Education
- Religious Education
- Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes
- Address of Booker T. Washington, Principal Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., at the Opening of the Exposition
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
- The Talented Tenth
- Treaty between the United States of America and the Navajo Tribe of Indians; Concluded June 1, 1868; Ratification advised July 25, 1868; Proclaimed August 12, 1868.
- Dawes Act
- BLAINE AMENDMENTS
- Proposed Constitutional Amendment
- Article XVI
- Massachusetts Constitutional Provision
- Reynolds v. United States
- The Late Corporation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints et al. v. United States
- IMMIGRATION POLICY
- Immigration Act
- Immigration Act
- Immigration Act
- Non-quota Immigrants
- Quota Immigrants
- Preferences within Quotas
- Numerical Limitations
- Nationality
- The Principles of Scientific Management
- Introduction
- Chapter I: Fundamentals of Scientific Management
- Carrie Buck, by R. G. Shelton, Her Guardian and Next Friend, Plff. in Err., v. J. H. Bell, Superintendent of the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble Minded
- Introduction to I’ll Take My Stand
- A Statement of Principles
- PART FIVE: Reform Movements
- National People’s Party Platform, adopted at Omaha, Neb., July 4, 1892
- Preamble
- Platform
- Expression of Sentiments
- Coin’s Financial School
- The Money Unit
- The Crime of 1873
- Another Illustration
- Lecture II: What Pragmatism Means
- The Socialist Party and the Working Class
- The Labor Market
- Paramount Issue
- The Class Struggle
- Attitude of the Workers
- The Ballot
- The Historic Struggle of Classes
- Capitalist Parties
- The Republican Party
- The Democratic Party
- The Socialist Party
- Closing Words
- Preamble
- The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements
- Why the Ward Boss Rules
- Declaration of Principles of the Progressive Party
- The Old Parties
- A Covenant with the People
- The Rule of the People
- Amendment of Constitution
- Nation and State
- Social and Industrial Justice
- Business
- Commercial Development
- Tariff
- High Cost of Living
- Currency
- Conservation
- Waterways
- Panama Canal
- Alaska
- Equal Suffrage
- Corrupt Practices
- Publicity and Public Service
- The Courts
- Administration of Justice
- Department of Labor
- Country Life
- Health
- Patents
- Interstate Commerce Commission
- Good Roads
- Inheritance and Income Tax
- Peace and National Defense
- Treaty Rights
- The Immigrant
- Pensions
- Parcels Post
- Civil Service
- Government Business Organization
- Government Supervision Over Investments
- Conclusion
- THE INCOME TAX
- Speech on Constitutionality of an Income Tax
- U.S. Constitution, Sixteenth Amendment
- DIRECT ELECTION OF U.S. SENATORS
- Resolution Opposing Direct Election of Senators
- U.S. Constitution, Seventeenth Amendment
- First Annual Meeting of the Woman’s State Temperance Society
- Prohibition Debate
- U.S. Constitution, Eighteenth Amendment
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- U.S. Constitution, Twenty-first Amendment
- Section 1
- Section 2
- Section 3
- WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
- The Fundamental Principle of a Republic
- Debate on Women’s Suffrage
- U.S. Constitution, Nineteenth Amendment
- PART SIX: Consolidating Government
- The Pendleton Act
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Veto Message—Distribution of Seeds
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- President’s Message to the Senate and House of Representatives
- Federal Trade Commission Act
- The Place of the Independent Commission
- Radio Address on Unemployment Relief
- Commonwealth Club Address
- Inaugural Address
- Federal Emergency Relief Act
- National Industrial Recovery Act
- Title I—: Industrial Recovery
- Declaration of Policy
- Administrative Agencies
- Codes of Fair Competition
- Agreements and Licenses
- Limitations Upon Application of Title
- Title II—: Public Works and Construction Projects
- Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
- Subsistence Homesteads
- Redistribution of Wealth
- A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. et al. v. United States
- Fireside Chat on the Reorganization of the Judiciary
- National Labor Relations Board v. Jones Laughlin Steel
- PART SEVEN: America in the World
- Monroe Doctrine—Seventh Annual Message
- Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
- Foreign Policy
- Arbitration Treaties—Second Hague Conference
- Policy toward Other Nations of Western Hemisphere
- Rights of American Citizens Abroad
- The Navy
- The Army
- Medals of Honor in the Navy
- The Philippines
- The Fallacy of Territorial Extension
- The Star of Empire
- Open Door Note
- Mr. Hay to Mr. White
- WOODROW WILSON ON NEUTRALITY AND WAR
- Statement on American Neutrality
- STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT
- Address to the Senate
- ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (S. DOC. NO. 5.)
- DISSENT IN WARTIME
- Espionage Act
- Title I: Espionage
- Free Speech in Wartime
- DISTRICT JUDGE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE SHOT AT TRAITORS IN CONGRESS.
- Right of People to Discuss War Issues
- Discussion by American Statesmen
- Power of Congress to Declare Objects of War
- Constitutional Provisions Involved
- Campaign Should Be Made on Constitutional Lines
- Sedition Act
- Schenck v. United States
- Fourteen Points Speech
- ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
- Covenant of the League of Nations
- Article I
- Article II
- Article III
- Article IV
- Article V
- Article VI
- Article VII
- Article VIII
- Article IX
- Article X
- Article XI
- Article XII
- Article XIII
- Article XIV
- Article XV
- Article XVI
- Article XVII
- Article XVIII
- Article XIX
- Article XX
- Article XXI
- Article XXII
- Article XXIII
- Article XXIV
- Article XXV
- Article XXVI
- ANNEX TO THE COVENANT
- Speech against the League of Nations
- LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
- HEJAZ AGAINST BEDOUINS
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- Article I
- Article II
- Article III
- Note by the Department of State Adhering Countries
- Note on Chinchow
- Neutrality and War
- The Atlantic Charter
- The Four Freedoms
- Pearl Harbor Speech
- SOURCES
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