Sources of our liberties
Subtitle: documentary origins of individual liberties in the United States Constitution and Bill of rights
By: Edited by Richard L. Perry under the general supervision of John C. Cooper
Contributors: Cooper, John C.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9781331028840
Subjects: Constitutional history; Sources; Civil rights; Constitutional law
Description: Primary documents from 1215 to 1791, and including Magna Carta, Ordinances of Virginia, Charter of Massachusetts Bay, Habeas Corpus Act, Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, and Declaration of Independence, among others.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Chicago : American Bar Foundation, 1959.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-445) and index.
Table of contents: title: Magna Carta, 1215; Confirmatio Cartarum, 1297; The First Charter of Virginia, 1606; Ordinances for Virginia, 1618; Mayflower Compact, 1620; Petition of Right; 1628; The Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629; The Charter of Maryland, 1632; Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639; Abolition of the Star Chamber, 1641; Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641; Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1663; Concessions and Agreements of West New Jersey, 1677; Habeas Corpus Act, 1679; Frame of Government of Pennsylvania, 1682; Bill of Rights, 1689; Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges, 1701; Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765; Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774; Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, 1775.; title: Constitution of Virginia, 1776; Declaration of Independence, 1776; Constitution of Pennsylvania, 1776; Delaware Declaration of Rights, 1776; Constitution of Maryland, 1776; Constitution of North Carolina, 1776; Constitution of Vermont, 1777; Constitution of Massechusetts, 1780; Constitution of New Hampshire, 1784; Northwest Ordinance, 1787; The Constitution of the United States, 1787; The First Ten Amendments to the Constitution, 1791.