1. Magna Carta (1215)
2. Letters Patent to Sir Humphrey Gylberte (1578)
3. Virginia Rules on Conduct and Religion (1619)
4. Blacks and Slavery Come to Virginia (1619-1640)
5. Mayflower Compact (1620)
6. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
7. The Bloudy Tenet of Persecution (1644), Roger Williams
8. Virginia Statutes on Slavery (1662-1669)
9. Frame of Government (1682)
10. Zenger's Case (1735)
11. Indian and White Views on Poverty (1742)
12. Against the Writs of Assistance (1761), James Otis
13. Parliamentary Omnipotence (1765), William Blackstone
14. Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions (1765)
15. Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
16. Declaratory Act (1766)
17. Letter from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, II (1767), John Dickison
18. Somerset v. Stewart (1772)
19. Common Sense (1776)
20. Thoughts on Government (1776)
21. Declaration of Independence (1776)
22. The Pennsylvania Bill of Rights (1776)
23. The Articles of Confederation (1781)
24. Vermont Reception Statute (1782)
25. Land Ordinance (1785)
26. Observations on the Pernicious Practice of Law (1786), Honestus
27. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
28. The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
29. The Constitutional Convention: Proposals for Government (1787)
A. The Virginia Plan
B. The New Jersey Plan
C. Hamilton's Plan
30. Constitution of the United States (1787)
31. Objections to the Proposed Constitution (1787), George Mason
32. The Federalist (1787-1788)
33. Judiciary Act (1789)
34. Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1791), Thomas Jefferson
35. Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States (1791), Alexander Hamilton
36. Reply to Washington on Advisory Opinions (1793), John Jay
37. Pacificus No. 1 (1793), Alexander Hamilton
38. Helvidius No. 1 (1793), James Madison
39. Chilsom v. Georgia (1793)
40. Hylton v. United States (1796)
41. The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
A. Naturalization Act of 1798
B. The Alien Friends Act
C. The Alien Enemies Act
D. The Sedition Act of 1798
42. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798)
43. Georgia Judiciary Act (1799)
44. Instruction from Virginia Assembly to the Virginia Senators on Common Law (1800)
45. First Inaugural Address (1801), Thomas Jefferson
46. Marbury v. Madison (1803)
47. Memorandum on Louisiana Purchase (1803), Albert Gallatin
48. Charge to Grand Jury (1803), Samuel Chase
49. Palmer v. Mulligan (1805)
50. Commonwealth v. Pullis (1806) (The Philadelphia Cordwainders Case)
51. Ex Parte Bollman (1807)
52. United States v. Peters (1809)
53. Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
54. Sands v. Taylor (1810)
55. United States v. Hudson and Goodwin (1812)
56. Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816)
57. Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
58. Sturges v. Crownshield (1819)
59. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
60. Defense of States' Rights (1820), John Taylor
61. Against Universal Suffrage (1821), James Kent
62. Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
63. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
64. Eakin v. Raub (1825)
65. Tyler v. Wilkinson (1827)
66. American Insurance Co. v. Canter (1828)
67. Lansing v. Smith (1828)
68. South Carolina Exposition (1828), John C. Calhoun
69. State v. Mann (1829)
70. Veto Of Maysville Road Bill (1830), Andrew Jackson
71. South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification (1832)
72. Veto of Bank Bill (1832), Andrew Jackson
73. Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
74. Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
75. Rules of Constitutional Interpretation (1833), Joseph Story
76. Declaration of American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
77. Commonwealth v. Aves (1836)
78. Mayor of New York v. Miln (1837)
79. Proprietors of the Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of the Warren (1837)
80. Nickerson's Case (1837)
81. Parker v. Foote (1838)
82. Mercein v. People Ex. Rel. Barry (1840)
83. Swift v. Tyson (1842)
84. Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
85. Farwell v. BostonandWorcester Railroad (1842)
86. Commonwealth v. Hunt (1842)
87. Jones v. Van Zandt (1847)
88. What Shall Be Done With The Practice of the Courts? (1847), David Field
89. Declaration of Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
90. State v. Caesar (1849)
91. Luther v. Borden (1849)
92. Roberts v. City of Boston (1849)
93. Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
94. Commonwealth v. Alger (1851)
95. Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia (1851)
96. Ohio Construction of 1851 (1851)
97. Hentz v. Long Island Railroad Co. (1852)
98. Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855)
99. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
100. Lincoln-Douglas Debates (1858)
101. Ableman v. Booth (1859)
102. Slave Code of Virginia (1860)
103. Limits of Federal Power (1860), Jeremiah S. Black
104. South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860)
105. Kentucky v. Dennison (1861)
106. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861)
107. First Inaugural Address (1861), Abraham Lincoln
108. Ex Parte Merryman (1861)
109. Land Policy on the Home Front
A. The Homestead Act (1862)
B. The Morrill [Land Grant College] Act (1862)
110. The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
111. Prize Cases (1863)
112. Adequacy of the Constitution (1863), William Whiting
113. Gettysburg Address (1863), Abraham Lincoln
114. Early Plans for Reconstruction (1863-4)
A. Ten Percent Plan (1863)
B. Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
C. Proclamation Concerning Reconstruction (1864)
D. Wade-Davis Manifestor (1864)
115. Constitutionality of Draft (1864), Abraham Lincoln
116. Ex Parte Vallandigham (1864)
117. Second Inaugural Address (1865), Abraham Lincoln
118. Black Codes of Alabama and Mississippi (1865).
A. Alabama Acts
B. Mississippi Acts
119. Civil Rights Act (1866)
120. Veto of Civil Rights Act (1866), Andrew Johnson
121. Ex Parte Milligan (1866)
122. Articles of Impeachment Against Andrew Johnson (1867)
123. Ex Parte McCardle (1868)
124. Ex Parte Yerger (1869)
125. Texas v. White (1869)
126. Legal Tender Cases (1871)
127. Slaughterhouse Cases (1871)
128. Bradwell v. Illinois (1873)
129. Minor v. Happersett (1875)
130. Commonwealth v. Hamilton Manufacturing Co. (1876)
131. Munn v. Illinois (1877)
132. Civil Rights Cases (1883)
133. Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)
134. Wabash, St. LouisandPacific Ry. Co. v. Illinois (1886)
135. The Police Power (1886), Christopher J. Tiedeman
136. United Sates v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)
137. In re Debs (1895)
138. Pollock v. Farmers' LoanandTrust Co. (1895)
139. Richie v. People (1895)
140. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
141. People's Party Platform (1896)
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