Legal Documents

West's Encyclopedia of American Law, published by Thomson Gale

In West's Encyclopedia of American Law, you can find commentary and text of some 60 documents that were significant to the legal history of the United States. Here is where you can peruse documents that mapped the course of human rights in the United States, from Sojourner Truth's informal "Ain't I a Woman" speech in 1851 to the Constitution of the United States.

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