Articles, Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politic, and Martial for the Colony in Virginia
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Laws Enacted by the First General Assembly of Virginia
1619Constitution for the Council and Assembly in Virginia
July 24, 1621Letter from an Indentured Servant to his Parents
1623Laws and Orders Concluded by the Virginia General Assembly
March 05, 1624Plymouth Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity
1625Salem Covenant of 1629
1629Charter of Massachusetts Bay
March 4, 1629Agreement of the Massachusetts Bay Company at Cambridge, England
August 26, 1629A Model of Christian Charity
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1630The Watertown Covenant
July 30, 1630The Oath of a Freeman, or of a Man to Be Made Free
1631Massachusetts Election Agreement
May 18, 1631The Massachusetts Agreement on the Legislature
May 9, 1632Cambridge Agreement
December 24, 1632Dorchester Agreement
October 8, 1633Cambridge Agreement on a Town Council
February 3, 1634Salem Oath for Residents
April 1, 1634Massachusetts Agreement on the Legislature
May 14, 1634The Oath of a Freeman
May 14, 1634Watertown Agreement on Civil Officers
August 23, 1634Excerpts of Colonial Laws related to Religious Establishment and Toleration
Dedham Covenant
1636The Enlarged Salem Covenant
1636Pilgrim Code of Law
November 15, 1636Plymouth Agreement
November 15, 1636Providence Agreement
August 20, 1637Act for Establishing the House of Assembly and the Laws to Be Made Therein
1638An Act for Church Liberties
1638An Act for the Liberties of the People
1638An Act What Persons Shall Be Called to Every General Assembly and an Act Concerning the Calling of General Assemblies
1638Maryland Act for Swearing Allegeance
1638Orders Devised and Published by the House of Assembly to be Observed During the Assembly
February 25, 1638Government of Pocasset
March 7, 1638Plantation Covenant at Quinnipiack
April 1638Fundamental Articles of New Haven
1639Newport Agreement
April 28, 1639Government of Portsmouth
April 30, 1639Guilford Covenant
June 1, 1639Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire
July 5, 1639Structure of Town Governments
October 10, 1639Connecticut Oath of Fidelity
1640Plantation Agreement at Providence
August 27, 1640The Body of Liberties of the Massachusetts Colony in New England
Excerpts from the Capital Laws*
1641The Combination of the Inhabitants upon the Piscataqua River for Government
October 22, 1641The Massachusetts Body of Liberties
December 1641Organization of the Government of Rhode Island
March 16, 1642Capitall Lawes of Connecticut
December 1, 1642The New England Confederation
1643The Government of Guildford
April 19, 1643New Haven Fundamentals
October 27, 1643Massachusetts Bicameral Ordinance
March 7, 1644Massachusetts Ordinance on the Legislature
November 13, 1644Massachusetts Ordinance on the Legislature
November 13, 1644On Liberty
1645Majority Vote of Deputies and Magistrates Requires for the Passage of Laws in Connecticut
February 5, 1645Acts and Orders of 1647
1647The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts
1647Warwick Agreement
August 8, 1647Massachusetts Ordinance on Legislative Procedure
October 18, 1648Charter of Providence
March 14, 1649Maryland Toleration Act
April 21, 1649Towns of Wells, Gorgiana, and Piscataqua Form an Independent Government
July 1649Connecticut Code of Laws
May 1650The Cambridge Agreement of 1652
October 4, 1652Puritan Laws and Liberties
September 29, 1658An Act of the General Court
June 10, 1661General Assembly of Rhode Island Is Divided into Two Houses
March 27, 1666Preface to the General Laws and Liberties of Connecticut Colony Revised and Published by Order of the General Court Held at Hartford
October 1672General Laws and Liberties of New Hampshire
March 16, 1680Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania
1681Fundamentals of West New Jersey
1681An Act for Freedom of Conscience
December 07, 1682Charter of Liberties and Privileges
October 30, 1683Second Treatise Chapters 01-03
1690Second Treatise Chapters 04-06
1690Second Treatise Chapters 07-09
1690Second Treatise Chapters 10-12
1690Second Treatise Chapters 13-15
1690Second Treatise Chapters 16-19
1690Plan of Union
1697Plan of Union
1697Discourses
1698Division of the Connecticut General Assembly into Two Houses
October 13, 1698Pennsylvania Charter of Liberties
October 28, 1701Act Relating to the Biennial and Other Assemblies and Regulating Elections and Members in North Carolina
1715Act to Ascertain the Manner and Form of Electing Members to Represent the Province in the Commons House of Assembly
1721Of the Original Contract
1752Spirit of the Laws
1752A Thought Upon the Past, Present, and Future State of North America
1757Act to Ascertain the Manner and Form of Electing Members to Represent the Inhabitants of This Province in the Commons House of Assembly
June 09, 1761Concord Town Meeting Resolution
Concord, MA
October 22, 1776What is an American
1782A Foreign Spectator XXIV
September 18, 1787Witherspoon Letter about Isaac Newton
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