Historical document (MLA)
Works cited entries
MLA-220
Jefferson, Thomas. First Inaugural Address. 1801. The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation, edited by Diane Ravitch, 2nd ed., William Morrow, 2000, pp. 79-82.
Constitution of the United States. 1787. The Charters of Freedom, US National Archives and Records Administration, www.archives.gov/
Magna Carta. 1215. Britannia History, www.britannia.com/
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- Some historical documents, such as the US Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and well-known documents without specific titles, are neither italicized nor put in quotation marks, as in the first and last examples.
- Give the original date following the document title, if known.
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