American Legal History: Documents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Remonstrance and Petition of
Robert Child (1646).
John Winthrop, "Speech on
Liberty" (1645)
Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts
(1648)
William Bradford, Of Plimouth
Plantation (1642)
The Pynchon Court Record (1639-42)
Proceedings of the Provincial
Court of Maryland (1664)
Records of the Quarterly Courts of Essex
County, MA at Ipswich (1664, 1665, 1682)
Archives of Maryland, Kent
County (1661, 1668)
Records of The Virginia Company
of London (1619)
Minutes of the Council and
General Court of Virginia (1629, 1640)
Act of the Virginia General
Assembly (1639-40)
Virginia Statutes on
Slaves and Servants (1642-1738)
The Declaration of Independence
New Hampshire Laws (1776, 1784)
Constitution of Pennsylvania (1776)
Grimke's Account of the Camden Riot
(1785)
Camden Memorial (1785)
Execution Sales Act (SC, 1785)
David Ramsay's Letter to Jefferson
(1787)
David Ramsay, History of South
Carolina (1809)
The Federalist (Numbers 10, 37, 78)
Root, Introduction to Reports (1798)
James Kent, Memoirs
James Kent, Commentaries, 2d ed.
(1832)
de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835)
Daniel Webster, Autobiographical Sketch (1829)
Caton, Bench and Bar of Illinois (1893)
Baldwin, Flush Times (1853)
Northwest Ordinance(1787)
Public Lands Statutes (1796-1850)
James Kent, Commentaries, 6th ed. (1848)
Tecumseh's Speech at Vincennes (1810)
Dawes Act (1887)
Massachusetts Mill Dam Act (1795)
Merritt v. Parker (NJ, 1795)
Martin v. Bigelow, (VT, 1827)
Snow v. Parsons (VT, 1856)
Review of Angell, Treatise on Watercourses
(1829)
Olmsted, Memoir of Eli Whitney (1846)
NY Council of Revision (1785)
Currie's Admin. v. Mutual Assurance Soc. (VA,
1809)
Ellis v. Marshall (MA, 1807)
Jackson's Veto of the Second Bank
(1832)
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837)
NJ Turnpike Incorporation Act (1856)
John Stark versus Thomas Parker,
19 Mass. (2 Pickering) 267 (1824).
Nicholas Farwell vs. The Boston
and Worcester Rail Road Corporation, 45 Mass. (4 Metcalf) 49 (1842)
Maria Wightman versus Joshua
Coates, 15 Mass. 1 (1818).
ASKEW vs. DUPREE, 30 Ga. 173
(1860).
"An Act to provide for the
Adoption of Children," Acts and Resolves passed by the General
Court of Massachusetts, Chap. 324, (1851).
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, DECLARATION
OF SENTIMENTS AND RESOLUTIONS (Seneca Falls Convention, 1848).
Laws of New York, chap. 200,
(1848).
White vs. White, 5 Barbour 474
(NY, 1849).
Laws of New York, Chap. 375
(1849).
Blood vs. Humphrey, 17 Barbour
660 (N.Y., 1854).
Ryder v. Hulse, 33 Barb. (N.Y.
Sup. Ct.) 264 (1860).
Laws of New York, 83d session
Chap. 90 (1860).
Laws of New York, 85th session,
Chap. 172 (1860).
Buckley v. Wells, 33 N.Y. 518
(1865).
Revised Statutes, Maine, 1847:
Chapter 89, Section 2.
Laws, Maine, 1849, ch. 116, section
1.
Gustave de Beaumont & Alexis de
Tocqueville, On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its
Application in France, (1833).
Charles Dickens,American Notes For
General Circulation ( London: Chapman and Hall, 1850).
Penitentiary Law of 1829, Statutes
of Tennessee.
Thomas J. Dimsdale, The vigilantes of
Montana; or, Popular justice in the Rocky Mountains (Virginia City,
M.T., 1866).
REVISED CODE OF NORTH CAROLINA
(1854).
Jacob B. Wheeler, Esq., A PRACTICAL
TREATISE on the LAW OF SLAVERY, (New York: Allan Pollock, Jr. New
Orleans: Benjamin Levy, 1837).
Bryan v. Walton, 14 Georgia 185
(1853).
George Fitzhugh (1806-1881), SOCIOLOGY
FOR THE SOUTH (1854).
SLAVERY UNDER THE CONSTITUTION
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,
THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 60. 1850.
Dred Scott, Plaintiff in Error, v. John
F. A. Sandford, 19 Howard 393 (1857).
CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED
STATES (1787) AND THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA (1861).
Abraham Lincoln: ADDRESS DELIVERED AT
THE DEDICATION OF THE CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG (NOVEMBER 19, 1863)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURAL
ADDRESS
An act to confer Civil Rights on
Freedmen, and for other purposes., Laws of Mississippi. (1865).
Civil Rights Act, 14 Stat. p. 27
(Act of April 9, 1866).
W[illiam] S[tewart] Simkins, "WHY
THE KU KLUX," 4 The Alcalde (June 1916): 735-748.
Civil Rights Act of 1875, 18
Stat. Part III, p. 335 (Act of Mar. 1, 1875).
SLAUGHTER-HOUSE CASES (1872) .
"THE REBELLION AT HOMESTEAD,"
Harper's Weekly (New York City, July 16, 1892), 674, 675.
William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of
Gold," in William Jennings Bryan, Speeches of William
Jennings Bryan, (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1909).
Oliver Wendell Holmes to Emily
Hallowell, 16 November 1862, Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed. Touched With
Fire; Civil War Letters and Diary of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
1861-1864 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1946).
LOCHNER v. NEW YORK, 198 U.S. 45
(1905).
[Thomas Shearman?], The Judiciary of
New York, 105 North American Review, July 1867, pp. 148-176.
David Dudley Field, "The Laws and
Lawyers of New York," Titus Munson Coan, M.D., Editor. SPEECHES,
ARGUMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS OF DAVID DUDLEY FIELD. Volume
III. (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1, 3, and 5 Bond Street, 1890).
"AN ACT relative to the law
school of Columbia College," Chap. 202, Laws N.Y. 1860 (Passed
April 7, 1860).
Henry W. Taft, A Century and a Half at the
New York Bar (New York, 1938).
Robert Taylor Swaine, The Cravath
Firm and Its Predecessors (New York: Ad Press, 1946-48).
C[hristopher] C[olumbus] Langdell,
SUMMARY of THE LAW OF CONTRACTS, (1871).
Crystal Eastman, Work Accidents and the
Law (1910).
BUCK v. BELL, 274 U.S. 200 (1927).
Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr., "The
Judgment Intuitive: The Function of the ‘Hunch’ in Judicial
Decision", 14 Cornell Law Quarterly 274-88 (April,
1929).
Robert L. Hale, "Coercion and
Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State," 38 Political
Science Quarterly (1923), 470-478.
FRED RODELL, "Goodbye to Law
Reviews" (1936), 23 Virginia Law Review 38-45
(November 1936).
Louis D. Brandeis, "THE OPPORTUNITY
IN THE LAW," business--a profession (1914).
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