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1.     Library Guides — No link, placeholder to maintain numbering.
2. A K Code of Hammurabi (~1760 BCE) — Analysis by translator C.H.W. Johns.
3.  Ancient Greek and Latin Library — This goes to a submenu with its own link to a page for purchasing.
4. A The [Roman] Civil Law, tr. & ed. Samuel Parsons Scott (1932) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
5. A "Constitution" of Medina (Dustur al-Madinah), Mohammed (622) — Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, Vol. 23.
6. A Policraticus, John of Salisbury (1159) — Good scholarly edition, well annotated.
7. A Constitutions of Clarendon (1164) — Book containing it with other documents.
8. A Assize of Clarendon (1166) — Book containing it with other documents.
9. A Assize of Arms (1181) — Book containing it with other documents.
10. A Magna Carta (1215) — Readable analysis and commentary.
11. A Britton, (written ~1290, printed ~1530) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
12. A Confirmatio Cartarum (1297) — Book containing it with other documents.
13. A The Declaration of Arbroath (1320) — Scholarly treatise on the document and its background.
14. A The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli (1513) — Translation we rendered.
15. A Utopia, Thomas More (1516) — Good student edition.
16. A Discourses on Livy, Niccolò Machiavelli (1517 tr. Henry Neville 1675) — Translation we rendered.
• A Art of War, Niccolò Machiavelli (1520 tr. Henry Neville 1675) — Translation we rendered.
17. A Relectiones, Franciscus de Victoria (lect. 1532, first pub. 1557) — The Classics of International Law.
18. A Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Étienne De La Boétie (1548) — Edited and analysis by Paul Bonnefon.
19. A De Republica Anglorum, Thomas Smith (1565, 1583) — B&N student edition.
20. A Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos (Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants), "Junius Brutus" (Orig. Fr. 1581, Eng. tr. 1622, 1689) — Annotated Cambridge edition.
21. A Six Books of the Commonwealth, Jean Bodin (~1590 tr. Richard Knolles 1606) — Harvard facsimile edition.
22. A Politica, Johannes Althusius (1614, Abr. & tr. Frederick S. Carney) — Translation we rendered.
23. A The Mayflower Compact (1620) — Treatise of Judith Lloyd Yero.
24. A The Law of War and Peace, Hugo Grotius (1625) — A.C. Campbell edition.
25. A A Selected Works of Francis Bacon (1620-27). Includes Novum Organum and New Atlantis. Mixed selection.
26. A A A A Selected Works of Edward Coke (~1628) — Including the first, second, and third parts of the Institutes and the Reports.
27. A The Petition of Right (1628) — Book containing it with other documents.
28. A Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) — U.S. Constitution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut.
29. A The Elements of Law Natural and Politic, Thomas Hobbes (1640)
30. A Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641) — Harvard Classics.
31. A A Plea for Religious Liberty, Roger Williams (1644) — University Of Chicago Press.
32. A Lex, Rex (The Law is King), Samuel Rutherford (1644) — Hess Pubns.
33. A On Liberty, John Winthrop (1645) — Humanity Books.
34. A The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution: 1625-1660, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, ed. (1906) — Unable to find.
35. A Selected Works of the Levellers and their Allies (1645-56) — Andrew Sharp collection.
36. A De Cive (The Citizen), Thomas Hobbes (1641-47) — Oxford University Press.
37. A Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes (1651) — Longman Library of Primary Sources.
38. A Selected Political Works of John Milton — The Complete Prose Works, Yale Univ Pr.
    • K A Free Commonwealth, John Milton (1660)
39. A Selected Works of James Harrington (~1656) — Greenwood Press Reprint.
40. A Selected Political Works of Baruch de Spinoza (1670-7) — Includes Theologico-Political Treatise and Political Treatise.
41. A On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law, Samuel Pufendorf (1673, 1682) — Cambridge University Press.
42. A The Law of Nature and of Nations, Samuel Pufendorf (1674, tr. Basil Kennett 1703) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
43. A Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People (1676) — Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker , Scholar's Bookshelf.
44. A Habeas Corpus Act (1679) — Book containing it with other documents.
45. A Patriarcha, Robert Filmer (1680) — Cambridge University Press.
46. A Plato Redivivus, Henry Neville (1681) — University Press.
47. A Frame of Government of Pennsylvania, William Penn (1682) — Kessinger Publishing reprint.
48. Selected Political Works, James Tyrrell (1681-1694) — three main works:
1. A Patriarcha non Monarcha — Scholarly Resources, out of print.
2. A A brief disquisition of the law of nature — Fred B Rothman & Co. (merged into William S. Hein & Co.), out of print.
3. A Bibliotheca politica — Gerald M. Straka edition, out of print.
49. A English Bill of Rights (1689) — Book containing it with other documents.
50. A A Letter Concerning Toleration, John Locke (1689) — Cambridge University Press.
51. A Second Treatise on Government, John Locke (1690) — Cambridge University Press.
52. A A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias, Andrew Fletcher (1698) — Cambridge University Press.
53. A Discourses Concerning Government, Algernon Sidney (1698) — Liberty Fund.
54. A Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy — Kessinger Publishing reprint.
55. A Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges, William Penn (1701) — Government Printing Office (1909).
56. A Selected Works of Walter Moyle, (~1696-1721, pub. 1796) — Kessinger Publishing reprint.
57. A A Questions of Public Law, Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1737) — Oxford University Press (1930).
58. A The Principles of Natural and Politic Law, Jean Jacques Burlamaqui (1748, tr. Thomas Nugent 1752) — Liberty Fund.
59. A The Spirit of Laws, Charles de Montesquieu, (1748, tr. Thomas Nugent 1752) — Prometheus Books.
60. A Selected Essays of David Hume, (1754) — Oxford University Press.
61. A Albany Plan of Union, Benjamin Franklin (1754) — Vantage Press.
62. A In Defense of a Plan for Colonial Union, Benjamin Franklin (1754) — Black's Reader Service (1932).
63. A Institutes of natural law, Thomas Rutherforth (1754) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
64. A Selected Political Works of Jean Jacques Rousseau, (1754-1772) — University of Wisconsin Press, ed. Frederick Watkins.
65. A The Law of Nations, Emmerich de Vattel (1758) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
66. A The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, James Otis (1764) — UMI Books on Demand (2002).
67. A Of Crimes and Punishments, Cesare Beccaria (1764) — Academic Reprints (1953).
68. A Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act, Patrick Henry (1765 May 30) — Ed. Samuel Eliot Morison, Oxford University Press.
69. A The Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress (1765) — University Of Chicago Press (October 15, 1976).
70. A The Declaratory Act (1766) — University Of Chicago Press (October 15, 1976).
71. A An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Adam Ferguson (1767) — Cambridge University Press.
72. A A A Camden, Mansfield and the English Constitution — Multiple books.
73. A Letters of Junius, Unknown (1767-72) — Kessinger Publishing reprint.
74. A The English Constitution, John Louis De Lolme (1771) — Liberty Fund.
75. A The Rights of the Colonists, Samuel Adams (1772) — Kessinger Publishing reprint.
76. A Fairfax County Resolves (1774) — F.H. Shaw (1982).
77. A Declaration of Colonial Rights, First Continental Congress (1774) — Government Printing Office (1904).
78. A Articles of Association (1774) — Government Printing Office (1905).
79. A Charlotte Town Resolves, sometimes called the Mecklenburg Resolves (May 31, 1775) — Kessinger Publishing reprint.
80. A Declaration of Taking Up Arms, Second Continental Congress (July 6, 1775) — Government Printing Office (1905).
81. A On Civil Liberty, Passive Obedience, and Nonresistance, Jonathan Boucher (1775) — Kessinger Publishing reprint.
82. Selected Writings of Thomas Paine.
    1. A Common Sense — Replica Books.
    2. A The American Crisis — Replica Books.
    3. A Rights of Man — Replica Books.
    4. A The Trial of Thomas Paine for a Libel — Unable to find.
    5. A Age of Reason — Replica Books.
    6. A Agrarian Justice — Replica Books.
83. A The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) — University of Michigan Library.
84. A U.S. Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) — Cato Institute.
85. A Selected Political Works of Richard Price — Cambridge University Press.
86. A Fragment on Government, Jeremy Bentham (1776) — Cambridge University Press.
87. A Articles of Confederation (1777) — University of Wisconsin Press.
88. A The Principles of Morals and Legislation, Jeremy Bentham (1781) — Prometheus Books.
89. A Criminal Libel and the Duty of Juries, Joseph Towers (1764, 1784), Francis Maseres (1792) — Unable to find.
90. Selected Political Works of Immanual Kant (~1785-95).
    1. A Introduction to the Metaphysics of Morals, tr. W. Hastie (1785) — Unable to find
    2. A Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, tr. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1785) — Unable to find
    3. A On the Relationship of Theory to Practice in Political Right, (Excerpt) Immanual Kant (1792) — Unable to find.
    4. A Perpetual Peace, Immanual Kant (1795) — Unable to find.
    5. A Essays and Treatises on Moral, Political, and Various Philosophical Subjects, Emanual Kant (1798) — Unable to find.
91. A The Northwest Ordinance (1787) — Indiana Historical Society (1989).
92. Constitutional Ratification Debates
    1. A Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, James Madison. — W. W. Norton.
    2. A Constitution for the United States (1787) — Government Printing Office (January 2006).
    3. A The Federalist Papers, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (1787-88) — Signet Classics.
    4. A Anti-Federalist Papers (1787-89) — Greenwood Press.
    5. A The Debates in the Several Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution, Jonathan Elliot (1836) — University of Michigan Library.
    6. A Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States of America — U.S. State Department (1894, 1900).
    7. A Documentary History of the Bill of Rights — Chelsea House Pub.
    8. A A A Selected Essays from the Founding Period — Our collection does not correspond to any one print collection.
93. A A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams (1787-89) — Da Capo Pr. (1911)
94. A Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson, 1789) — Kessinger Publishing.
95. A Selected Works of Edmund Burke (1788-92) — Oxford University Press.
96. A A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft (1792) — Modern Library.
97. A Tracts on Political and Other Subjects, Joseph Towers (1796) — Unable to find.
98. Federalist-Republican Debates 1792-1800
    1. A Against the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, Thomas Jefferson — Palgrave Macmillan.
    2. A For the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States, Alexander Hamilton — Palgrave Macmillan.
    3. A Farewell Address, George Washington (1796). Dover Publications
    4. A The Virginia Report, J.W. Randolph, ed. (1850) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
    5. A First Inaugural Address, Thomas Jefferson (1801) — Dover Publications.
99. A₁  A₂  A₃  A₄  A₅  A₆  A₇  A₈  A₉  A₁₀  A₁₁  A₁₂  A₁₃  A₁₄  A₁₅  A₁₆  A₁₇  A₁₈  A₁₉  A₂₀  Writings of Thomas Jefferson — Kessinger Publishing 20 vol. (1853).
100. U. Chicago Press: (Vol. 1-4 appear to be out of print.)
     Revolution: A₅  A₆  A₇ 
     U. Virginia Press:
     Congress: A₁₁  A₁₂  A₁₇ 
     Sec. State: A₁  A₂  A₃  A₄  A₅  A₆  A₇  A₈ 
     President: A₁  A₂  A₃  A₄  A₅ 
     Works of James Madison — Several print collections.
101. A Tucker's Blackstone, St. George Tucker (1803) — The Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone (1769), with additional commentaries by Tucker adapting the common law to the needs of the U.S. Constitution — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
102. A Works of James Wilson (1804) — Liberty Fund.
103. A Dallas, Cranch and Wheaton — Unable to find.
104. A Journal of William Maclay — Kessinger Publishing.
105. Annals of Congress: A₁  A_4-1  A_7-1  A_7-2  A₈  A_10-1  A_11-1,2  A_11-3  A_12-1.1  A_12-1.2  A_12-2  A₁₃  A₁₄  A_15-1  A₁₇ 
     Statutes at Large: A₅  A₆ 
     — Records of debates and statutes in the first years of the U.S. Congress.
106. A An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States, John Taylor (1814) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
107. A Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated, John Taylor (1820) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
108. A Tyranny Unmasked, John Taylor (1821) — Cosimo Classics (2005).
109. A The Elements of the Art of Packing, As Applied to Special Juries, Particularly in Cases of Libel Law, Jeremy Bentham (written 1809, published 1821) — W. Tait (1843).
110. A New Views of the Constitution of the United States, John Taylor (1823) — Regnery Publishing (2000).
111. A Commentaries on American Law, James Kent (1826) — Fred B Rothman & Co. (merged into William S. Hein & Co.); 12th edition (1989).
112. A A View of the Constitution, William Rawle (1829) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
113. A Works of Daniel Webster (1782-1852) — Little, Brown and Co. (1860).
114. A Hayne-Webster Debate (1830) — Cornell University Library.
115. A Selected Works of John C. Calhoun, (1831) — Gateway Editions (2003)
     • K A Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States, John C. Calhoun (1831)
     • K A Disquisition on Government, John C. Calhoun (1831)
116. A Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Joseph Story (1833) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
117. A K A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature and Character of our Federal Government, ..., Abel Parker Upshur (1840, 1868) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
118. A Seneca Falls Declaration, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1848). — Teaching & Learning Co (November 1, 2002).
119. A Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau (1849) — bnpublishing.com (June 2, 2006).
120. A The Law, Frederick Bastiat (1850) — Ludwig von Mises Institute (June 22, 2007).
121. A Law Dictionary, John Bouvier (1856) — William S. Hein & Co..
122. A A Selected Political Works of John Stuart Mill (~1860-9) — Includes On Liberty, Representative Government, Utilitarianism, and The Subjection of Women. Different collections.
123. I  Documents and Commentary on Slavery, the Confederate States of America, and the 1861-65 War of Secession.
124. A The American Republic: its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny, O. A. Brownson (1866) — Kessinger Publishing.
125. A A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon the Legislative Powers of The States of the American Union, Thomas M. Cooley (1868, 1883) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
126. A The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States of America, Thomas M. Cooley (1891) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
127. A The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States, Sydney George Fisher (1897). — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
128. A The Grand Jury, George J. Edwards (1906) — Lawbook Exchange reprint.
129. A Federal Usurpation, Franklin Pierce (1908) — Kessinger Publishing.
130. A State Documents on Federal Relations, Herman V. Ames (1911) — University of Pennsylvania (1906).
131. A Robert's Rules of Order Revised, Henry Robert (1915) — Morrow Quill Paperbacks.
132. A Constitutional Conventions, Roger Sherman Hoar (1917) — Kessinger Publishing.
133. A Recent Changes in American Constitutional Theory, John W. Burgess (1923) — Ayer Co Pub (June 1972).
134. A The Revival of Natural Law Concepts, Charles Grove Haines (1930) — Russell & Russell (1965).
135. A Sources of English Constitutional History: 600-1937, Carl Stephenson & Frederick George Marcham (1937) — Harper (1937).
136. A Union Now, Clarence K. Streit (1939) — Harper & Brothers (1939).
137. A Constitutionalism: Ancient and Modern, Charles Howard McIlwain (1947) — Great Seal Books (1958).
138. A The Origins of Modern Constitutionalism, Francis D. Wormuth (1949) — Harper and Brothers (1949).
139. A Jurisdiction over Federal Areas within the States — Unable to find.
140. Militia Treatises, James B. Whisker.
     1. A The Militia — Edwin Mellen Press (1992).
     2. A Introduction to the American Colonial Militia — Edwin Mellen Press (1997).
     3. A The New England Militia, 1606-1785 — Edwin Mellen Press (1997).
     4. A The Pennsylvania Colonial Militia — Edwin Mellen Press (1997).
     5. A The Colonial Militias of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland — Edwin Mellen Press (1997).
     6. A The Colonial Militia of the Southern States, 1606-1785 — Edwin Mellen Press (1997).
     7. A The Rise and Decline of the American Militia System — Susquehanna University Press (1999).
141.  Selected Works on Tyranny — To understand the principles of constitutional republican government, one must understand the principles of its opposite.
142.  Trials of Liberty — Some of the best expositions of law and constitutional principles are made during trials.
143.  Landmark Court Decisions — Includes commentaries on the rulings and the opinions.
144.  Constitutional History & Commentary — Books, anthologies, and essays.
145.  History & Economics Background — Books, anthologies, and essays.
146.  Legal Briefs Collection — Organized by subject.
147.  Law Review Article Collection — Organized by subject.
148.  Common Law Writs — Sometimes called Extraordinary Remedies, they are key to understanding the Constitution.
149.  U.S. State Constitutions and Web Sites
150.  National Constitutions — The supreme laws of many of the most important countries, for comparative analysis.

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