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American Foundational Documents

Anti-Federalist Papers. Index of full text documents from the Constitution Society.

Congressional Research Service's Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation.

FindLaw's United States Constitution with Annotations.

Declaration of Independence from the Constitution Society.

Documentary History of the Bill of Rights.  Index of full text documents from the Constitution Society.

Federalist Papers. Index of full text documents from the Constitution Society.

The Papers of James Madison.  Index to full text documents at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

The Papers of George Washington.  Index to full text documents at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Index to full text documents at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project. 

Selected Statutes of the United States: Chronological.  Index to full text documents at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Edmund G. Ross.  History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Index to full text documents at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

John Quincy Adams (1839) The Jubilee of the Constitution: A Discourse

 

Historical English Law

Assize of Clarendon, 1166. Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.  Index to full text documents at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project. 

Blackstone's Commentaries.  Full text, modernized with good footnoting.  The best online version yet.  Lonang Institute. 

Bracton's On the Laws and Customs of England.  Index of full text at the Cornell Law's Legal Information Institute.

English Bill of Rights 1689.   Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Magna Carta.  Full text documents from the Constitution Society.

Statutes of William The Conqueror. Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

T. R. Malthus's The Corn Laws. Index to full text documents at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Historical French Law

Declaration of the Rights of Man - 1789.  Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Ancient Legal Works

Code of Hammurabi. Index to full text documents at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Law of Caesar on Municipalities, 44 B.C. Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Henry Maine's Ancient Law.  Index to full text documents at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

The Salic Law. Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

The Twelve Tables.  Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Papers in American Law

Jon Roland's Intent of the Fourteenth Amendment was to Protect All Rights. Full text document from the Constitution Society.
 

Modern International  Law

Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation (1971).   Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide December 9, 1948.  Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.  Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

Modern American Law

Executive Order Establishing the Office of Homeland Security.  Full text document at the Yale Law School's Avalon Project.

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