Constitutional Legal History: Additional Websites

Images of the main categories of court records over almost four centuries (c. 1272-1650).

An online archive of primary source documents for American history, including newspapers, books, pamphlets, and government publications from the 17th through 20th centuries. The archive includes legal and legislative history documents, like House, Senate, and executive branch journals, and the U.S. Serial Set.

A Government, Legal and Diplomacy primary source website. This site is maintained by Yale University’s Law School and provides full-text primary documents that cover more than 2,000 years of historical human interaction.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75. [Some of this info also is in HeinOnline.]

Source documents for the creation of the United States Constitution are provided in two formats: authoritative transcripts and high-quality digital images of original documents. Collections housed on the site include James Madison’s Notes of the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist Papers, the Anti and Pro-Federalist Papers, state ratification debates for seven states, the legislative history of the Bill of Rights, and “The Founders’ Papers” (personal and public letters).

Bibliography of published sources of English medieval legal documents (covering the years 600-1532).

The Making of America (MOA) represents an endeavor to preserve and make accessible a significant body of primary sources related to development of the U.S. infrastructure. The project began in 1995 as a collaboration between the University of Michigan and Cornell University to develop a "thematically-related digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction." Ultimately, over 5,000 volumes with imprints between 1850 - 1877 will be included.

Covers many online links on the U.S. Constitution, the influence of the U.S. Constitution abroad, constitutional texts, non U.S. constitutions, government agencies, case reports and commentaries, research centers and organizations, listserves, and other sources.