• Magna Carta, 1215
• The Iroquois Constitution

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

• Petition of Right, 1628

• English Bill of Rights, 1689

• Discourses Upon Trade by Dudley North : 1691

• Short Observations on a Printed Paper, titled "For encouraging the coining Silver Money in England, and after for keeping it here." by John Locke 1695

• Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money by John Locke 1696

   

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

• Treaty of Paris, 1763

• Proclamation of 1763

• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 1774

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776

• Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of Independence, 4 July, 1776

• Jefferson's notes on Slavery

• Letter of George Washington to John Hancock, September 24, 1776

• 1776 - Constitution of Maryland; November 11
• Amendments to the Maryland Constitution of 1776
• 1776 - Constitution of New Hampshire
• 1776 - Constitution of New Jersey
• 1777 - The Constitution of New York : April 20
• 1775 - The Mecklenburgh Resolutions : May 20
• 1776 - Constitution of North Carolina : December 18
• 1776 - Constitution of Pennsylvania - September 28
• 1776 - Constitution of South Carolina - March 26
• 1778 - Constitution of South Carolina - March 19
• 1777 - Constitution of Vermont - July 8
• Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson 1779
• 1786 - Constitution of Vermont - July 4
• 1791 - Admission of the State of Vermont - February 18
• 1776 - The Constitution of Virginia; June 29
  
• United States Articles of Confederation, 1781

• Newburgh Conspiracy

   

• Treaty of Paris, 1783

• Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776 - 1783

• Contract Between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America (1782)

• The Annapolis Convention, 1786

• The Barbary Treaties (1786)

• The Federalist Papers 1787

• US Constitution, 1787

• The Northwest Ordinance (1787)

• Letter of Transmittal of US Constitution

• Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789

• James Madison, speech proposing the Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789

• Bill of Rights and the Amendments to The Constitution

• George Washington, First Inaugural Adress (1789)

• George Washington, Second Inaugural Adress (1789)

• Alexander Hamilton, Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States (1791)

• Proclamation of Neutrality, 1793

• George Washington, The Whiskey Rebellion, 1794

• JAY'S TREATY - 1794

   

• Greenville Treaty with a number of Indian Tribes, 1795

• Declaration of Rights and Duties of Man and Citizen, Constitution of the Year III (1795)

• Farmer's Almanack (1795)

• Washington's Farewell Address

• Bill of Rights 1796

   

• John Adams Inaugural Address (1797)

• An Act respecting alien enemies

   

• The Sedition Act of (1798)

• The Kentucky Resolutions (1799)

• Paul Jennings' Reminiscences of James Madison (1865)

NINETEENTH CENTURY 

• Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government: Quotations from the Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Eyler Robert Coates, Sr., editor.
   
   
• Thomas Jefferson's 1st Inaugural Address (1801)

• U.S. Supreme Court, Marbury v Madison (1803)

• Letter from President Thomas Jefferson to Meriweather Lewis 1803

• Thomas Jefferson's 2nd Inaugural Address (1805)

• New England Primer (1805)

• New England Primer (1807)

• Marshall opinion in the Burr Trial 1807

• James Madison, First Inaugural (1809)

• Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

• Brackenridge, Henry Marie, Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, 1811

• Luttig, John C., Journal of a fur-trading expedition on the Upper Missouri, 1812-1813

• Treaty of Ghent 1814 to end the War Of 1812

• James Madison, Second Inaugural (1813)

• Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner (1814)

• James Monroe, First Inaugural (1817)

• Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817)

• Opening of New York to Liverpool Packet Line (1817)

• U. S. Supreme Court, McCulloch v The State of Maryland (1819)

• U.S. Supreme Court, Dartmouth College v Woodward (1819)

• James Monroe, Second Inaugural (1821)

• Cohens v. Virginia (1821)

• The Monroe Doctrine, 1823

• Johnson v. McIntosh (1823)

• Dr. Richard Furman, Expostion on Slavery, reflecting the Views of Baptists (1823)

• U.S. Supreme Court, Gibbons v Ogden (1824)

• Ross, Alexeander, Journal - Snake Country Expedition, 1824

• John Quincy Adams, Inaugural Address (1825)

• Ogden, Peter Skene, Accounts of an 1825 Expedition into Utah

• Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural (1829)

• The Confessions of Nat Turner, 1831

• U.S. Supreme Court, The Cherokee Nation v The State of Georgia (1831)

• Ball, John, Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832

• Wyeth, Nathaniel J.: The Journals of Expeditions to the Oregon Country 1832 - 1834 and Selected Letters.

• Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto (1832)

• Henry Clay, Speech on the Bank Veto (1832)

• Andrew Jackson, Second Inaugural (1833)

• Tocqueville and Beaumont on Slavery and the Indian Problem