100 Documents That Shaped America.

[AGENDA21]

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/documents/document_time.htm

No documents from 1966 onwards...thats a surprise.

[philarq]

1. Contract with america?

I never met anyone that actually read the damn thing, but it sure sounded good for a year or so, and the Repugs bashed enough people over the head with it.

[DBoon]

2. Nixon's resignation didn't count?

nt

[AGENDA21]

4. That should have counted

and so should the Patriot Act.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. The Pentagon Papers?

[Inland]

5. I note that none of the proslavery, prosecession docs are included.

Nothing from the CSA states declaring independence and their rollicking defense of slavery.

[MrPrax]

6. Amazing what's missing...

I scanned the list...Seneaca Falls Declaration, Brown v Board of Education, Roe V Wade, Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Mann Act, etc...even Paine's Common Sense...

Who exactly did the voting because I can't believe that the Public would have a profound understanding of Gibbons vs Ogden over say the Hayes Code?

[DBoon]

7. No literature?

Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Looking Backward?
The Jungle?