{"title":"HISTORIC DOCUMENTS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.\" ~Thomas Jefferson, 1789\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn studying the history of the United States, it is important to go back to primary source material. Here are some of the key documents and speeches that all well-informed citizens of the United States would want to be familiar with.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"magna-carta-1215-english-translation","title":"Magna Carta 1215 - English Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Continental Congress made the American Constitution \"the Supreme Law of the Land,\" just as the rights granted by King John of Englands 1215AD Magna Carta were not to be arbitrarily cancelled by subsequent English laws. 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