The Magna Carta (the Great Charter)
Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England (1240)
Prohibitions Del Roy (1609)
James I's Speech Before Parliament (1609)
The Five Knights Case 3 How S.T. 1 (1627)
Mayflower Compact King’s Law and Local Custom In Seventeenth Century New England (1931)
Giddings v. Brown (1657)
John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
Declaration of Indulgence by King James II (1687)
Trial of The Seven Bishops (1688)
The English Bill of Rights (1688)
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690)
1736: Brief Narrative of the Trail of Peter Zenger
Reason, Freedom and the Rule of Law by George, Robert P.
Natural Law and Human Rights in English Law: From Bracton to Blackstone by Helmholz, R.H.
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Law of England (1765)
Blackstone on Reception of English Law (1765) by Blackstone, William
Charles de Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
Somerset v. Stewart, 1 Lofft 1 (K.B. 1772)
The Virtues of Liberalism: Christianity, Republicanism, and Ethics in Early American Political Discourse by Kloppenberg, James T.
A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers... by Mayhew, Jonathan; Royster, Paul
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
The Anti-Federalists, Brutus I (1787)
Federalist No. 47
Federalist No. 10 (1788)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
Natural Rights, Natural Law, and American Constitutions by Hamburger, Philip A.
The U.S. Constitution
To George Washington from Art. St. Clair, August 1789
Judiciary Act of 1789
Property by Madison, James
Calder v. Bull (1798)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Corfield v. Coryell, 6 F. Cas. 546 (1823)
Swift v. Tyson (1842)
