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         John Quincy Adams, Gag Rule Controversy: Question of Reception John Quincy Adams, Gag Rule Controversy, Petition Purporting to Come From Slaves  | 
       
         
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         Congressional Repercussions  | 
    
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         Robert 
          Barclay, Fifteen 
          Propositions 
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      Modes of American Public Discourse | 
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 Caleb 
          Bingham, "Oration 
          on Eloquence," from The Columbian Orator 
           
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         Modes of American Public Discourse  | 
    
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         Dale 
          Bumpers, Defense 
          of the President  
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      Impeachment Controversy | 
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 John C. Calhoun, Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions  | 
       
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         Congressional Repercussions  | 
    
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         John 
          Jay Chapman, Coatesville 
          Address  
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      Rhetorical Criticism | 
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 Bill 
          Clinton, State 
          of the Union, 19 Jan 1999  
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         Impeachment Controversy  | 
    
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         Federalists and Anti-Federalists  | 
    
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 Eugene 
          Debs, Statement to 
          the Court  
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         Labor Movement  | 
    
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         Modes of American Public Discourse  | 
    
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         Frederick Douglass, "We Have Decided to Stay"  | 
       
         
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         Fires of Abolition  | 
    
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         W. 
          E. B. DuBois, Niagara 
          Movement Address  
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      Civil Rights before 1950 | 
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 Federalist 
          #9 [Hamilton]  
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         Federalists and Anti-Federalists  | 
    
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 Margaret 
          Fell, Womens Speaking 
          Justified  
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         Woman's Rights  | 
    
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         Benjamin Franklin, On the Constitution  | 
       
         
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         Federalists and Anti-Federalists  | 
    
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         Impeachment  | 
    
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         William Lloyd Garrison, 
            Peace Declaration  | 
       
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      Fires of Abolition | 
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         Gorgias 
          of Leontini, On the Nonexistent 
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      Ancient Rhetorical Theory | 
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         Angelina Grimke, Speech in Pennsylvania Hall  | 
       
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         Fires of Abolition  | 
    
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         Sarah 
          Grimke, Letter 
          in Response to the Pastoral Letter 
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      Woman's Rights | 
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 Patrick 
          Henry, Against the Federal Constitution 
           
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         Federalists and Anti-Federalists  | 
    
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         Henry Hyde, 
          Summation of House Prosecution 
         
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      Impeachment Controversy | 
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         Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Jean Nicolas Demeunier Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Holmes  | 
       
         
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         The Discourses of Slavery  | 
    
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      Rhetorical Criticism | |
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 Martin 
          Luther King, I Have a 
          Dream  
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         Civil Rights since 1950  | 
    
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 Ursula K. 
          LeGuin, She 
          Unnames Them  
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         Feminism  | 
    
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         Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural  | 
       
         
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         Lincoln, Slavery and Providence  | 
    
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 Bob 
          Livingston, Resignation, 19 
          Dec 1998  
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         Impeachment  | 
    
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         Lucretia Mott, The Law of Progress  | 
       
         
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         Fires of Abolition  | 
    
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 Cheryl 
          Mills, Excerpt from 
          Case Against Obstruction of Justice, 20 Jan 1999  
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         Impeachment Controversy  | 
    
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         Richard M. 
          Nixon, "Checkers" 
          Speech   
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      Rhetorical Criticism | 
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      Woman's Rights | |
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 Wendell 
          Phillips, The 
          Murder of Lovejoy  
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         Fires of Abolition  | 
    
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        Civil Rights before 1950 
         
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      Student Protest | |
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 Franklin 
          Delano Roosevelt, 1st 
          Inaugural  
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         Rhetorical Criticism  | 
    
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 Seneca Falls 
          Convention, Declaration 
          of Sentiments  
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         Woman's Rights  | 
    
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 SNCC Position 
          Paper: Women 
          in the Movement  
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         Feminism  | 
    
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 August Spies, 
          Defense  
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         Labor Movement  | 
    
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         Elizabeth 
          Cady Stanton, The 
          Solitude of Self 
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      Woman's Rights | 
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         Nat Turner, Confessions  | 
       
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      Fires of Abolition | 
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 Sojourner 
          Truth, "A'n't I a 
          Woman"  
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         Woman's Rights  | 
    
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         Booker 
          T. Washington, Atlanta 
          Exposition Address 
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      Civil Rights before 1950 | 
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         Modes of American Public Discourse  |