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Presents the report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston, Massachusetts town meeting, dated November 20, 1772, about the colonists' rights. Natural rights of the colonists as men; Rights of the colonists as Christians; Rights of the colonists as subjects of Great Britain; Excerpt of Benjamin Franklin's preface to the English edition of the report of the Committee of Correspondence.

The article presents the text of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1866. The act says that, as enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, all persons born in the United States, excluding those subject to a foreign nation, are declared citizens of the United States. Such citizen, it says, of every race and color, regardless of previous slavery or servitude, shall have the same rights in every state and territory of the U.S. Section two states that any person who subjects another person to the deprivation of these rights shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to specified punishments. Sections three and four give the courts and law enforcement officials the right to arrest and try any person who offends this law. Sections five through ten further define the enforcement of this law.

The article presents the text of the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified in Congress on July 4, 1776, and was the unanimous decision of the 13 United States of America. The document begins with the phrase "When in the course of human events..." and introduces the idea of unalienable rights with the phrase "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." The American colonies are seeking independence from Great Britain because of the king's tyranny and state that they are absolved from any allegiance to the British Crown.