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Legal History -
Modern Era
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The Bill
of Rights of 1689
The
Bill of Rights of 1689
alternative e-texts of the statute which, though not protecting individual
rights in the same way as the US Bill of Rights, effectively established
Parliamentary democracy in England.
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The
Spirit of Laws
by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1751).
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Blackstone's
Commentaries
on the Laws of England
Blackstone's
Commentaries
on the Laws of England
Blackstone's
Commentaries
on the Laws of England
three (unfortunately) incomplete e-text of the first modern and systematic
analysis of English law.
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La Déclaration
des Droits de L'Homme et du Citoyen
e-text, in French, of the Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen,
approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789
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Documents for
American Legal History
links to e-text of, and commentaries on, important documents in the
Constitutional and legal history of the United States.
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The
Federalist Papers
The
Federalist Papers
The
Federalist Papers
The
Federalist Papers
various e-texts of the influential writings of US "Founding Fathers"
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay.
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The Declaration
of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies (WWLIA)
The
Declaration of Independence (Avalon)
The
Declaration of Independence (Project Gutenberg Etext)
various e-texts of the cherished corner-stone of US constitutional
history.
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The
American Constitution - A Documentary Record
Avalon's collection of documents relevant to US constitutional history.
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Excerpts from
the Holmes-Pollock Letters
from The Correspondence of Mr. Justice [Oliver Wendell] Holmes and
Sir Frederick Pollock, 1874-1932.
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The
Corporation Sole
an essay by Frederic Maitland, originally published in the Law Quarterly
Review, (1900), vol.16, pp.335-354.
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The
Avalon Project: 18th Century Documents
The
Avalon Project: 19th Century Documents
The
Avalon Project: 20th Century Documents
e-texts of important documents in law, history and diplomacy.
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Records
of the Australasian Federation Conventions of the 1890s
The
Making of Australia's Constitution (Constitutional Centenary Foundation)
Influence
of the U.S. Constitution (University of New England)
resources relating to the drafting of the Australian Constitution.
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Documenting
a Democracy
documentary and pictorial record of Australia's State and Federal constitutional
history
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Internet
Modern History Sourcebook
a vast collection of resources, although not specifically legally-oriented,
from the Industrial Revolution to the Twentieth Century
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Australian
Literary and Historical Texts
most of these e-texts are of literary, rather than legal, significance;
but a number of documents relevant to Australia's legal and constitutional
history are included
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