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| Preface | |
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| Magna Carta (1215) | |
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| Letters Patent to Sir Humfrey Gylberte (1578) | |
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| Virginia Rules on Conduct and Religion (1619) | |
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| Blacks and Slavery Come to Virginia (1619-1640) | |
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| Mayflower Compact (1620) | |
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) | |
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| The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644) | |
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| Virginia Statutes on Slavery (1662-1669) | |
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| Frame of Government (1682) | |
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| Resolutions on Slavery of the Germantown Mennonites (1688) | |
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| The English Bill of Rights (1689) | |
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| Second Treatise on Government (1690) | |
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| Zenger's Case (1735) | |
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| Indian and English Views on Property (1742) | |
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| Against the Writs of Assistance (1761) | |
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| Parliamentary Omnipotence (1765) | |
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| Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions (1765) | |
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| Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) | |
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| Declaratory Act (1766) | |
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| Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, II (1767) | |
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| Somerset v. Stewart (1772) | |
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| Common Sense (1776) | |
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| Thoughts on Government (1776) | |
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| Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| The Pennsylvania Bill of Rights (1776) | |
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| Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 | |
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| The Articles of Confederation (1781) | |
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| Vermont Reception Statute (1782) | |
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| Land Ordinance (1785) | |
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| Observations on the Pernicious Practice of Law (1786) | |
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| Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786) | |
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| The Northwest Ordinance (1787) | |
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| The Constitutional Convention: Proposals for Government (1787) | |
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| The Virginia Plan | |
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| The New Jersey Plan | |
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| Hamilton's Plan | |
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| Constitution of the United States (1787) | |
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| Objections to the Proposed Constitution (1787) | |
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| The Federalist (1787-1788) | |
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| Number 10 | |
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| Number 78 | |
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| Brutus, No. 1 (1787) | |
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| Judiciary Act (1789) | |
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| Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1791) | |
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| Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States (1791) | |
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| Reply to Washington on Advisory Opinions (1793) | |
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| Pacificus No. I (1793) | |
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| Helvidius No. I (1793) | |
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| Chisholm v. Georgia (1793) | |
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| Hylton v. United States (1796) | |
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| The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) | |
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| Naturalization Act of 1798 | |
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| The Alien Friends Act | |
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| The Alien Enemies Act | |
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| The Sedition Act of 1798 | |
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| The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798) | |
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| Georgia Judiciary Act (1799) | |
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| Instruction from Virginia Assembly to the Virginia Senators on Common Law (1800) | |
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| First Inaugural Address (1801) | |
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| Marbury v. Madison (1803) | |
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| Stuart v. Laird (1803) | |
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| Memorandum on Louisiana Purchase (1803) | |
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| Charge to Grand Jury (1803) | |
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| Palmer v. Mulligan (1805) | |
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| Commonwealth v. Pullis (1806) (The Philadelphia Cordwainders Case) | |
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| Ex Parte Bollman (1807) | |
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| United States v. Peters (1809) | |
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| Fletcher v. Peck (1810) | |
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| Sands v. Taylor (1810) | |
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| United States v. Hudson and Goodwin (1812) | |
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| Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816) | |
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| Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) | |
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| Sturges v. Crowninshield (1819) | |
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| McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | |
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| Defense of States' Rights (1820) | |
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| Against Universal Suffrage (1821) | |
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| Cohens v. Virginia (1821) | |
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| Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh (1823) | |
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| Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) | |
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| Eakin v. Raub (1825) | |
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| Tyler v. Wilkinson (1827) | |
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| American Insurance Co. v. Canter (1828) | |
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| Lansing v. Smith (1828) | |
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| South Carolina Exposition (1828) | |
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| State v. Mann (1829) | |
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| Veto of Maysville Road Bill (1830) | |
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| South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832) | |
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| Veto of Bank Bill (1832) | |
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| Worcester v. Georgia (1832) | |
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| Barron v. Baltimore (1833) | |
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| Rules of Constitutional Interpretation (1833) | |
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| Declaration of American Anti-Slavery Society (1833) | |
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| Commonwealth v. Aves (1836) | |
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| Mayor of New York v. Miln (1837) | |
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| Proprietors of the Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of the Warren (1837) | |
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| Nickerson's Case (1837) | |
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| Parker v. Foote (1838) | |
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| Mercein v. People Ex. Rel. Barry (1840) | |
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| Swift v. Tyson (1842) | |
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| Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) | |
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| Farwell v. Boston & Worcester Railroad (1842) | |
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| Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842) | |
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| Jones v. Van Zandt (1847) | |
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| What Shall Be Done with the Practice of the Courts? (1847) | |
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| Declaration of Seneca Falls Convention (1848) | |
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| State v. Caesar (1849) | |
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| Luther v. Borden (1849) | |
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| Roberts v. City of Boston (1849) | |
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| Fugitive Slave Act (1850) | |
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| Commonwealth v. Alger (1851) | |
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| Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia (1851) | |
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| Ohio Constitution (1851) | |
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| Hentz v. Long Island Railroad Co. (1852) | |
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| What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) | |
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| Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855) | |
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| Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) | |
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| Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858) | |
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| Ableman v. Booth (1859) | |
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| Slave Code of Virginia (1860) | |
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| Limits of Federal Power (1860) | |
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| South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860) | |
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| Kentucky v. Dennison (1861) | |
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| The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861) | |
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| First Inaugural Address (1861) | |
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| Ex Parte Merryman (1861) | |
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| Land Policy on the Home Front | |
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| The Homestead Act (1862) | |
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| The Morrill [Land Grant College] Act (1862) | |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) | |
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| Prize Cases (1863) | |
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| Adequacy of the Constitution (1863) | |
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| Gettysburg Address (1863) | |
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| Early Plans for Reconstruction (1863-1864) | |
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| Ten Percent Plan (1863) | |
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| Wade-Davis Bill (1864) | |
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| Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction (1864) | |
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| Wade-Davis Manifesto (1864) | |
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| Constitutionality of Draft (1864) | |
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| Ex Parte Vallandigham (1864) | |
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| Second Inaugural Address (1865) | |
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| Black Codes of Alabama and Mississippi (1865) | |
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| Alabama Acts | |
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| Mississippi Acts | |
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| Civil Rights Act (1866) | |
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| Veto of Civil Rights Act (1866) | |
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| Ex Parte Milligan (1866) | |
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| Articles of Impeachment Against Andrew Johnson (1867) | |
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| Ex Parte McCardle (1867) | |
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| Ex Parte Yerger (1869) | |
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| Texas v. White (1869) | |
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| Legal Tender Cases (1871) | |
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| Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) | |
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| Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) | |
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| Minor v. Happersett (1875) | |
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| Commonwealth v. Hamilton Manufacturing Co. (1876) | |
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| Munn v. Illinois (1877) | |
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| Reynolds v. United States (1879) | |
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| Civil Rights Cases (1883) | |
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| Crow Dog's Case (1883) | |
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| Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886) | |
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| Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Ry. Co. v. Illinois (1886) | |
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| The Police Power (1886) | |
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| Fong Yue Ting v. United States et al. (1893) | |
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| United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895) | |
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| In re Debs (1895) | |
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| Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895) | |
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| Ritchie v. People (1895) | |
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| The Atlanta Exposition Address (1895) | |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
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| Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court | |