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• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873

  From the Library of Congress, American Memory.

  • Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention

  • Debates of Congress

  • Journals of Congress

  • Statutes and Documents

• Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

  The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.

  • Major Document Collections

    Topics include: African-Americans - Biography, Autobiography and History; The American Constitution - A Documentary Record; American History : A Chronology 1492-Present; American Revolution - A Documentary Record; Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England : 1765-1769; Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents; Confederate States of America : Papers; Congressional Resolutions; The Federalist papers; History Treatises; Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789 : Selected Documents; Native Americans : Treaties with the United States; Presidential Papers; Slavery : Statutes and Treaties; Texas - From Independence to Annexation 1836-1846; Treaties Between The United States and Native Americans; United States Statutes; United States Statutes Concerning Native Americans; United States Statutes Concerning Slavery; World War II - Documents; 1940-1945.

• Avalon Project - The Statutes of the United States

• Caselaw Access Project - United States

  The Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) expands public access to U.S. law. The goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law School Library.

• Constitutions, Statutes, and Codes | LII / Legal Information Institute

  From the Cornell Law School.

• FindLaw - Browse United States Courts

• Google Books - United States Statutes

  Search results for digitized books on historical statutes. For each book, view the book within your web browser or hover over "EBOOK - FREE" and choose the ebook option you wish to download.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library - United States Statutes

  Catalog search results for digitized books on historical statutes.

• Historic Northwest Territory Law

  The Advancing Genealogist's Online Law Library page of Historic Northwest Territory law links.

• Internet Archive Texts - American Libraries - United States Statutes

  Catalog search results for digitized books on historical statutes.

• Law Library of Congress

  • Guide to Law Online

    An annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information.

  • Guide to Law Online - U.S. States & Territories

• Living with the Hydra: The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records

  By Walter B. Hill, Jr. for Prologue

• Office of the Law Revision Counsel - United States Code

  • Popular Name Tool

    The Popular Name Tool enables you to search or browse the United States Code Table of Acts Cited by Popular Name.

  • United States Statutes at Large

    The United States Statutes at Large, typically referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress. The Statutes at Large is prepared and published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) .

• State Legislatures, State Laws, and State Regulations: Websites / Telephone Numbers

  From the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.

• Statutes and Stories: Collections and Reflections on American Legal History

• Statutes at Large | Law Library of Congress

  The United States Statutes at Large is the collection of laws passed by the United States Congress, in chronological order.

• The Federal and State Constitutions, 7 vols. | Online Library of Liberty

  Francis Newton Thorpe was commissioned by the U.S. Congress to edit a 7 volume collection of Colonial, Federal and State constitutions in 1906. The volumes are in alphabetical order, with Volume 1 dealing with United States-Alabama-District of Columbia; Vol. 2 Florida-Kansas; Vol. 3 Kentucky-Massachusetts; Vol. 4 Michigan-New Hampshire; Vol. 5 New Jersey-Philippine Islands; Vol. 6 Porto Rico-Vermont; Vol. 7 Virginia-Wyoming.

• U.S. Colonial Laws - LibGuides - Bowling Green State University

  This guide lists sources of laws of the original thirteen colonies.