Articles, Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politic, and Martial for the Colony in Virginia

1610

Laws Enacted by the First General Assembly of Virginia

1619

Constitution for the Council and Assembly in Virginia

July 24, 1621

Letter from an Indentured Servant to his Parents

1623

Laws and Orders Concluded by the Virginia General Assembly

March 05, 1624

Plymouth Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity

1625

Salem Covenant of 1629

1629

Charter of Massachusetts Bay

March 4, 1629

Agreement of the Massachusetts Bay Company at Cambridge, England

August 26, 1629

Excerpts from “A Model of Christian Charity”

John Winthrop 1630

The Watertown Covenant

July 30, 1630

The Oath of a Freeman, or of a Man to Be Made Free

1631

Massachusetts Election Agreement

May 18, 1631

The Massachusetts Agreement on the Legislature

May 9, 1632

Cambridge Agreement

December 24, 1632

Dorchester Agreement

October 8, 1633

Cambridge Agreement on a Town Council

February 3, 1634

Salem Oath for Residents

April 1, 1634

Massachusetts Agreement on the Legislature

May 14, 1634

The Oath of a Freeman

May 14, 1634

Watertown Agreement on Civil Officers

August 23, 1634

Dedham Covenant

1636

The Enlarged Salem Covenant

1636

Pilgrim Code of Law

November 15, 1636

Plymouth Agreement

November 15, 1636

Providence Agreement

August 20, 1637

Act for Establishing the House of Assembly and the Laws to Be Made Therein

1638

An Act for Church Liberties

1638

An Act for the Liberties of the People

1638

An Act What Persons Shall Be Called to Every General Assembly and an Act Concerning the Calling of General Assemblies

1638

Maryland Act for Swearing Allegeance

1638

Orders Devised and Published by the House of Assembly to be Observed During the Assembly

February 25, 1638

Government of Pocasset

March 7, 1638

Plantation Covenant at Quinnipiack

April 1638

Fundamental Articles of New Haven

1639

Newport Agreement

April 28, 1639

Government of Portsmouth

April 30, 1639

Guilford Covenant

June 1, 1639

Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire

July 5, 1639

Structure of Town Governments

October 10, 1639

Connecticut Oath of Fidelity

1640

Plantation Agreement at Providence

August 27, 1640

The Body of Liberties of the Massachusetts Colony in New England

Excerpts from the Capital Laws*

1641

The Combination of the Inhabitants upon the Piscataqua River for Government

October 22, 1641

The Massachusetts Body of Liberties

December 1641

Organization of the Government of Rhode Island

March 16, 1642

Capitall Lawes of Connecticut

Generall Court December 01, 1642

The New England Confederation

1643

The Government of Guildford

April 19, 1643

New Haven Fundamentals

October 27, 1643

Massachusetts Bicameral Ordinance

March 7, 1644

Massachusetts Ordinance on the Legislature

November 13, 1644

Massachusetts Ordinance on the Legislature

November 13, 1644

On Liberty

John Winthrop 1645

Majority Vote of Deputies and Magistrates Requires for the Passage of Laws in Connecticut

February 5, 1645

Acts and Orders of 1647

1647

The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts

1647

Warwick Agreement

August 8, 1647

Massachusetts Ordinance on Legislative Procedure

October 18, 1648

Charter of Providence

March 14, 1649

Maryland Toleration Act

April 21, 1649

Towns of Wells, Gorgiana, and Piscataqua Form an Independent Government

July 1649

Connecticut Code of Laws

May 1650

The Cambridge Agreement of 1652

October 4, 1652

Puritan Laws and Liberties

September 29, 1658

An Act of the General Court

June 10, 1661

General Assembly of Rhode Island Is Divided into Two Houses

March 27, 1666

Preface to the General Laws and Liberties of Connecticut Colony Revised and Published by Order of the General Court Held at Hartford

October 1672

General Laws and Liberties of New Hampshire

March 16, 1680

Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania

1681

Fundamentals of West New Jersey

1681

An Act for Freedom of Conscience

December 07, 1682

Charter of Liberties and Privileges

October 30, 1683

Second Treatise Chapters 01-03

John Locke 1690

Second Treatise Chapters 04-06

John Locke 1690

Second Treatise Chapters 07-09

John Locke 1690

Second Treatise Chapters 10-12

John Locke 1690

Second Treatise Chapters 13-15

John Locke 1690

Second Treatise Chapters 16-19

John Locke 1690

Plan of Union

William Penn 1697

Plan of Union

William Penn 1697

Discourses

Algernon Sidney 1698

Division of the Connecticut General Assembly into Two Houses

October 13, 1698

Pennsylvania Charter of Liberties

October 28, 1701

Act Relating to the Biennial and Other Assemblies and Regulating Elections and Members in North Carolina

1715

Act to Ascertain the Manner and Form of Electing Members to Represent the Province in the Commons House of Assembly

1721

Of the Original Contract

David Hume 1752

Spirit of the Laws

Montesquieu 1752

A Thought Upon the Past, Present, and Future State of North America

Ames 1757

Act to Ascertain the Manner and Form of Electing Members to Represent the Inhabitants of This Province in the Commons House of Assembly

June 09, 1761

Concord Town Meeting Resolution

Concord, MA

October 22, 1776

What is an American

J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur 1782

A Foreign Spectator XXIV

Nicholas Collin September 18, 1787

Witherspoon Letter about Isaac Newton

Brooke Hindle July 1958