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Presents information delivered to the Maryland state legislature, relative to the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1787. The author as one of the delegates to the convention; List of propositions submitted in the convention; Views of the different parties on the propositions; Arguments on the propositions; Implication of the proposition.

Presents the text of a letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr. from a Birmingham, Alabama jail to several Alabama clergymen. Reasons for his internment; Position on the Birmingham demonstrations; Reasons for the direct-action campaign against Birmingham merchants; Purpose of non-violent protest; Difference between just and unjust laws; Position on the white moderate.

The article presents the text of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech entitled "I have a dream," given in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. King says that one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans still are not free; they are segregated, poverty-ridden, and exiled in their own land. He likens the African American march on Washington to cashing a check; the founders of the United States signed a promissory note with the Constitution guaranteeing the freedom of all men, but for the African Americans, it was a bad check returned and marked "insufficient funds." King asks for immediate change and says African Americans will not rest until they are granted citizenship rights, but he urges his people never to resort to violence. Even though they face great difficulties ahead, King says he holds to his dream, rooted in the American dream of freedom for all.

Focuses on the executive order of March 31, 1840 by the president of the United States, for the hours of labor by persons employed in public works. Differences which the order is designed to correct.