• 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

• Jonathan Mayhew A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers, 1750

• Petition to Parliament: Reasons for making bar, as well as pig or sow-iron, ca. 1750

• Petition to Parliament: Reason against a general prohibition of the Iron Manufacture in Plantations

• Albany Plan for a Union, 1754

• Samuel Davies The Curse of Cowardice, 1758

• Franklin, Benjamin: Poor Richard Improved (1759)

• Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761

• Treaty of Paris, 1763

• Proclamation of 1763

• Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October 1765

• Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the taxation consider'd, 1765

• The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765

• William Pitt's speech on the Stamp Act, January 14 1766

• John Dickenson's Letter 2, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768

• John Dickenson's Letter 4, from Letters from a Farmer, 1767-1768

• Gottlieb Mittelberger, On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants

• Benjamin Franklin, How I Became a Printer in Philadelphia
  

• Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre, 5 March, 1770

• Captain Thomas Preston's account of the Boston Massacre, 13 March 1770

• Dr. Joseph Warren's Boston Massacre Oration (1772)

• James Wilson, Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the British Parliament,1774

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

• Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774

• The Suffolk Resolves, 1774

• Daniel Leonard's letter of January 9, 1775

• John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775

• Edmund Burke speech on conciliation with America, March 22, 1775

• Patrick Henry, The War Inevitable, March 23, 1775

• The Charlotte Town Resolves, 1775

• Patrick Henry: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, 1775

• Second Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6 1775

• Yankee Doodle

• Thomas Paine, Common Sense 1776

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776

• Samuel West, On the Right to Rebel against Governors, 1776

• Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of Independence, 4 July, 1776

• Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 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
• 1786 - Constitution of Vermont - July 4
• 1791 - Admission of the State of Vermont - February 18
• 1776 - The Constitution of Virginia; June 29
   
• Albigence Waldo - From the diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge, 1777

• Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776 - 1783

• Samuel Cooper, A Sermon on the Day of the Commencement of the Constitution, 1776

• Draft for a Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, by Jefferson 1779

• United States Articles of Confederation, 1781

• From the diary of Ebenezer Denny, 1781, describing the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown

• Treaty of Paris, 1783

• Contract Between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America (1783)

• James Madison, Memorial and Remonstrance -1785

• Memorial and Remonstrance (Virginia, 1785)

• Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789
• Declaration of Rights and Duties of Man and Citizen, Constitution of the Year III (1795)
   
• The Benjamin Marston Diaries Project. David Seaman, with the University of New Brunswick Libraries' Electronic Text Centre.