Quick Links:
Please also see the Law Library's Selected Web Sources for Legal History
- The American Constitution - A documentary record (Yale)
- Articles of Confederation
- The Bill of Rights
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
- - U.S. Congressional documents, debates, & early statutes
- Journals of the Continental Congress
- Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-1789)
- Elliot's Debates
- Farrand's Records
- Annals of Congress (1789-1824)
- Register of Debates (1824-1837)
- Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
- Congressional Record (1873-1875)
- House Journal (1789-1875)
- Senate Journal (1789-1875)
- Senate Executive Journal(1789-1875)
- Maclay's Journal
- Bills and Resolutions
- - House-6th-42nd Congress
- - Senate-16th-42nd Congress
- - Senate Joint Resolutions-18th-42nd Congress
- - (1799-1873) after House Congresses
- - (1819-1873) after Senate Congresses
- - (1824-1873 after Senate Joint Resolutions Congresses
- Statutes at Large (1789-1875)
- American State Papers (1789-1838)
- U.S. Serial Set
- - selected documents and reports, 23rd-64th Congress
- - (1833-1917)
- Constitution of the United States
- Declaration of Independence
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Federalist Papers (OU Law Center)
- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
- - Historical documents relevant to fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government with links to supporting documents referred to in historical texts.
- Chronology of United States Historical Documents (OU Law Center)
- - includes all Presidential inaugural addresses as well as other important documents from precolonial times to the present
- CyberCemetary (U. North Texas)
- - Provides access to web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions
