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| Preface | |
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| Introductory Essay | |
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| New Hampshire | |
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| Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire, July 5, 1639 | |
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| General Laws and Liberties of New Hampshire, March 16, 1680 | |
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| Massachusetts | |
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| Agreement Between the Settlersat New Plymouth (The Mayflower Compact), November 11, 1620 | |
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| Plymouth Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity, 1625 | |
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| The Salem Covenant of 1629 | |
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| Agreement of the Massachusetts Bay Company at Cambridge, England, August 26, 1629 | |
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| The Watertown Covenant of July 30, 1630 | |
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| Masschausetts Election Agreement, May 18, 1631 | |
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| The Oath of a Freeman, or of a Man to Be Made Free, 1631 | |
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| The Massachusetts Agreement on the Legislature, May 9, 1632 | |
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| Cambridge Agreement, December 24, 1632 | |
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| Dorchester Agreement, October 8, 1633 | |
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| Cambridge Agreement on a Town Council, February 3, 1634 | |
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| Massachusetts Agreement on the Legislature, May 14, 1634 | |
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| The Oath of a Freeman, May 14, 1634 | |
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| Salem Oath for Residents, April 1, 1634 | |
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| Watertown Agreement on Civil Officers, August 23, 1634 | |
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| The Enlarged Salem Covenant of 1636 | |
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| Plymouth Agreement, November 15, 1636 | |
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| Pilgrim Code of Law, November 15, 1636 | |
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| Dedham Covenant, 1636 | |
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| The Massachusetts Body of Liberties, December 1641 | |
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| The Combination of the Inhabitants upon the Piscataqua River for Government, October 22, 1641 | |
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| Massachusetts Bicameral Ordinance, March 7, 1644 | |
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| Massachusetts Ordinance on the Legislature, November 13, 1644 | |
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| The Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts, 1647 | |
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| Massachusetts Ordinance on Legislative Procedure, October 18, 1648 | |
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| Towns of Wells, Gorgiana, and Piscataqua Form an Independent Government, July 1649 | |
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| The Cambridge Agreement of October 4, 1652 | |
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| Puritan Laws and Liberties, September 29, 1658 | |
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| An Act of the General Court, June 10, 1661 | |
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| Rhode Island | |
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| Providence Agreement, August 20, 1637 | |
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| Government of Pocasset, March 7, 1638 | |
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| Newport Agreement, April 28, 1639 | |
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| The Government of Portsmouth, April 30, 1639 | |
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| Plantation Agreement at Providence, August 27, 1640 | |
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| Organization of the Government of Rhode Island, March 16-19, 1642 | |
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| Warwick Agreement, August 8, 1647 | |
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| Acts and Orders of 1647 | |
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| Charter of Providence, March 14, 1649 | |
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| General Assembly of Rhode Island Is Divided into Two Houses, March 27, 1666 | |
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| Connecticut | |
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| Plantation Covenant at Quinnipiack, April 1638 | |
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, January 14, 1639 | |
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| Guilford Covenant, June 1, 1639 | |
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| Structure of Town Governments, October 10, 1639 | |
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| Fundamental Articles of New Haven, June 4-14, 1639 | |
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| Connecticut Oath of Fidelity, 1640 | |
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| Capitall Lawes of Connecticut, Established by the Generall Court the First of December, 1642 | |
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| The Government of Guilford, June 19, 1643 | |
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| New Haven Fundamentals, October 27, 1643 | |
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| Majority Vote of Deputies and Magistrates Required for the Passage of Laws in Connecticut, February 5, 1645 | |
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| Connecticut Code of Laws, 1650 | |
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| Preface to the General Laws and Liberties of Connecticut Colony Revised and Published by Order of the General Court Held at Hartford in October 1672 | |
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| Division of the Connecticut General Assembly into Two Houses, October 13, 1698 | |
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| New York | |
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| A Letter from Governor Richard Nicolls to the Inhabitants of Long Island, February 1665 | |
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| Charter of Liberties and Privileges, October 30, 1683 | |
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| New Jersey | |
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| Fundamentals of West New Jersey, 1681 | |
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| Pennsylvania | |
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| Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania, 1681 | |
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| Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government of the Province of Pennsylvania in America, May 5, 1682 | |
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| An Act for Freedom of Conscience, December 7, 1682 | |
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| Pennsylvania Charter of Liberties, 1701 | |
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| Maryland | |
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| Orders Devised and Published by the House of Assembly to be Observed During the Assembly, February 25, 1638 | |
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| Act for Establishing the House of Assembly and the Laws to Be Made Therein, 1638 | |
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| An Act for Church Liberties, 1638 | |
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| An Act for Swearing Allegeance, 1638 | |
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| An Act What Persons Shall Be Called to Every General Assembly and an Act Concerning the Calling of General Assemblies, 1638 | |
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| An Act for the Liberties of the People, 1638 | |
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| Maryland Toleration Act, April 21, 1649 | |
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| Virginia | |
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| Articles, Laws, and Orders, Divine, Politic, and Martial for the Colony in Virginia, 1610-1611 | |
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| Laws Enacted by the First General Assembly of Virginia, August 2-4, 1619 | |
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| Constitution for the Council and Assembly in Virginia, July 24, 1621 | |
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| Laws and Orders Concluded by the Virginia General Assembly, March 5, 1624 | |
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| North Carolina | |
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| Act Relating to the Biennial and Other Assemblies and Regulating Elections and Members in North Carolina, 1715 | |
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| South Carolina | |
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| Act to Ascertain the Manner and Form of Electing Members to Represent the Province, 1721 | |
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| Georgia | |
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| Act to Ascertain the Manner and Form of Electing Members to Represent the Inhabitants of This Province in the Commons House of Assembly, June 9, 1761 | |
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| Confederations | |
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| The New England Confederation, 1643 | |
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| The Albany Plan of Union, 1754 | |
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| The Articles of Confederation, November 15, 1777 | |
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| William Penn's Plan of Union, February 8, 1697 | |
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| Joseph Galloway's Plan of Union, 1774 | |
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| Bibliography | |