Faculty Research

The American Founding

Declarations

• Rights of British Colonies, James Otis, 1764
• Untitled, Sam Adams, 2/27/1769
• Rights of the Colonists, Sam Adams, 11/20/1772
• Declaration and Resolves, First Continental Congress, 1774
• Conciliation with the Colonies, Edmund Burke, 1775
• Rights of the Colonies, Richard Bland, 1776
• Constitution of New Jersey, 1776
• Virginia Declaration of Rights, June 12, 1776
• Declaration of Independence, 1776
• Notes on the debates, in Congress, Thomas Jefferson, 1776
• Pennsylvania Declaration of Rights & Constitution, 1776
• Delaware Declarations of Rights, 1776
• Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, 1780