The Declaration of Rights, 1688
From The second treatise of government / John Locke
A sumnmary view of the rights of British America / Thomas Jefferson
From The declaration and resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774
From Common sense / Thomas Paine
Instructions to the Virginia delegation to the Continental Congress, May 15, 1776
Instructions of the Town of Boston to their representatives to the Continental Congress, May 23, 1776
Instructions of the Assembly of Pennsylvania to their delegates in Congress, June 8, 1776
Declaration of the Pennsylvania Provincial Congress, June 24, 1776
declaration of the delegates of Maryland in convention assembled, July 6, 1776
The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.