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Declarations and Manifestos of the Age of Revolution and Napoleon, 1700 to 1814

This group gathers the declarations and manifestos of the age of revolution and Napoleon, 1700 to 1814. These are the declarations, proclamations, manifestos and political essays by which leaders and movements stated their aims to the public. A document belongs here when its cited article gives a date inside this span for the document's own signing, adoption, issue or composition. It excludes documents dated earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring period groups of the same kind. The span from 1700 to 1814 covers the Enlightenment, the American and French revolutions and the wars of Napoleon.

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The Federalist Papers, Wikipedia
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The first seventy-seven of these essays were published serially in the Independent Journal, the New York Packet, and the Daily Advertiser between October 1787 and April 1788.
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Wikipedia: United States Declaration of Independence
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On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the Second Continental Congress, who were convened at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in Philadelphia.
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Common Sense (Wikipedia)
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Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
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Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Wikipedia
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'Homme et du citoyen de 1789), set by France's National Constituent Assembly in 1789, is a human and civil rights document from the French Revolution; the French title can be translated in the modern era as "Declaration of Human and Civil Rights".
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Virginia Declaration of Rights (Wikipedia)
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights was drafted in 1776 to proclaim the inherent rights of men, including the right to reform or abolish "inadequate" government.
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Haitian Declaration of Independence (Wikipedia)
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The Haitian Declaration of Independence (French: Acte de l'Indépendance de la République d'Haïti, Haitian Creole: Deklarasyon Endepandans Repiblik Ayiti) was proclaimed on 1 January 1804 in the port city of Gonaïves by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, marking the end of 13-year long Haitian Revolution.
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