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images below show the Virginia Declaration of Rights, as reported in
the Virginia Gazette in June of 1776. (Note that the small letter
"s" at that time was sometimes printed with a font style that looks
almost like the modern letter "f," depending on its placement in a
word.) The document, written primarily by George Mason, was
adopted by Virginia leaders as the colony broke away from Great
Britain. It contains
many of the ideas and phrases that appeared a few weeks later in the
Declaration
of Independence. The Virginia Declaration of Rights was also
later a
model for the U.S. Bill of Rights. The images are from the online
collection of the Library of Congress, re-sized for this web page. |
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Copyright
Notice
Text,
arrangement, and background Copyright 2006 by David
Burns. The images shown above are from the Library of Congress
online
collection, and are believed to be in the public domain. Images
in
the
public domain may normally be used by teachers and students freely for
instructional use. Please credit the Library of Congress if you
use the images.
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