{"data":{"description":"Early American Documents: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Northwest Ordinance, Articles of Confederation, Washington's proclamation of the 1st Thanksgiving.","title":"Early American Documents","post_type":"page","content":"\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eThe historical documents written by this country's Founders reflect their view of the America of their time.....and the America of what was to be. Here you can examine close up the message in these early american documents.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eWhat does the \u003cstrong\u003eConstitution\u003c/strong\u003e say about the people and the events of those days? 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