Laws, Charters, Constitutions, Bills of Right

About this Collection

We have gathered here legal documents which have contributed to the creation of a legal framework for the functioning of free socieites.

Members:

• Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (1860) (Lysander Spooner)
• Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters (Hammurabi)
• BOLL 37: Montesquieu, “Of the Constitution of England” (1748) (Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu)
• BOLL 41: “Magna Carta” (The Great Charter) (1215) (Editor (OLL))
• BOLL 43: “The Habeas Corpus Act” (1679) (Editor (OLL))
• BOLL 44: “The English Bill of Rights” (1689) (Editor (OLL))
• BOLL 45 [George Mason], “The Virginia Bill of Rights” (June, 1776) (George Mason)
• BOLL 72: “Three Agreements of the People” (1647-49) (John Lilburne)
• The Code of Hammurabi (Hammurabi)
• The Concise Magna Carta: The 63 Clauses in Latin, English, and with Commentary (David M. Hart)
• Constitution of Athens (Aristotle)
• The Constitution of England; Or, an Account of the English Government (Jean Louis De Lolme)
• The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 (Samuel Rawson Gardiner)
• The Federal and State Constitutions, 7 vols. (Francis Newton Thorpe)
• Institutes of Roman Law (Gaius)
• Liberty Matters: Magna Carta after 800 Years: From liber homo to modern freedom (May, 2015) (Justin Champion)
• Magna Carta: A Commentary (John Lackland (King John))
• On Civil Liberty and Self-Government (Francis Lieber)
• The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law (John Phillip Reid)