The American Founding: Founding Documents
Founding Documents
- The Magna Carta, 1215
- Virginia Charter, 1606
- The Mayflower Compact, 1620
- Petition of Right, 1628
- Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639
- Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
- Maryland Act Concerning Religion, 1649
- New Jersey Concessions, 1676
- Pennsylvania Frame of Government, 1682
- English Bill of Rights, 1689
- John Locke, Second Treatise, 1694
- Algernon Sidney, Discourses, 1698
- Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges, 1701
- Thomas Gordon, Cato's Letters Number 38, 1721
- Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, 1752
- David Hume, Of the Original Contract, 1752
- William Blackstone, Commentaries, 1756