1. Classes of Englishmen

2. From Sir George Peckham's "True Report"

3. A Discourse on Western Planting by Richard Hakluyt, 1584

4. Drayton's Ode to the Virginian Voyage

5. Goodspeed to Virginia, 1609

6. Nova Britannia, 1609

7. Statement of the Virginia Company, 1609

8. Marston's "Eastward Hoe"

9. Crashaw's "Daily Prayer"

10. Crashaw's Sermon, March 3/13, 1609/10

11. Sir Edwin Sandys, 1612

12. Governor Dale to the London Company, 1613

13. The London Company not Mercenary

14. John Smith's Last Plea for Colonization, 1631

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15. The Gilbert and Raleigh Charters

16. First Charter for Colonizing Virginia; April 10/20,[5] 1606

17. Instructions issued by King James

18. Instructions by the Council in England to the Expedition to Virginia; December, 1606

19. Exploration and Sufferings

20. Second Charter of Virginia; May 23/June 2, 1609

21. Third Charter for Virginia. March 12/22, 1611/1612[9]

22. Danger from Spanish Attack (1607-1614)

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23. From the Rules of the Virginia Company in London

24. An Order of the London Company as to Self-government February 2/12, 1619/20

25. The First Representative Assembly in America July 30/August 9, 1619

26. The London Company's "Declaration," June, 1620

27. The Ordinance of 1621 for Virginia

28. Royal Attempts to Control the Company, 1620-1622

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29. The Royal Commission of 1624 for the First Royal Governor in Virginia

30. Yeardley's Commission from Charles I, March 4/14, 1624/5

31. The Colony favors the Policy of the Company

32. Royal Restoration of the Virginia Assembly, 1629

33. Legislation by the Virginia Assembly as to Morals and Taxes

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34. Virginia and the Parliamentary Commissioners, 1652

35. The Franchise Restricted and Restored, 1655, 1656

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36. Lord Baltimore to King Charles, August 19/29, 1629

37. Charter of Maryland, June 20/30, 1632

38. Comment on the Avalon Charter of 1623

39. Excursus: Charters for New Albion and Maine

40. The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649

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41. Weymouth's Voyage, 1605

42. Charter of the Plymouth Council

43. Delays in securing the Wincob Charter Robert Cushman to Pastor Robinson, May 8/18, 1619

44. Agreement between the Pilgrims in Holland and the Merchant Adventurers in London

45. From the Farewell Letter of John Robinson

46. The Mayflower Compact

47. The Peirce Charter, June, 1621

48. Early Descriptions of Plymouth[30]

49. Final Source of Plymouth Land Titles

50. First Code of Laws in America

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51. The Gorges Claim to Massachusetts

52. The Beginning of Salem Colony

53. The First Charter for Massachusetts Bay

54. Docket of the Massachusetts Charter, 1629

55. Excursus: For a Comparative Study of Charters

56. The Massachusetts Company's Agreement with Mr. Higginson

57. First Government in Massachusetts Bay under the Company in England; April, 1629

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58. Decision to Transfer the Charter to the Colony

59. Decision of Puritan Gentlemen to Settle in the Colony[39]

60. Early Attitude of the Puritan Colony to the Church of England

61. Political Principles of the Puritans

62. Early Hardships and Religious Matters, 1630-1631

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63. The Oligarchic Usurpation

64. The First "Popular" Movement—Watertown Protest, 1632

65. Legislation and Administration by the "Assistants," 1630-1633

66. The Beginning of Town Government in Massachusetts, 1633

67. Representative Central Government Established, 1634

68. Reaction: The Aristocratic Veto

69. Right of Free Speech Denied

70. Formal Adoption of the Ballot in Elections in the General Court

71. Secret Ballot in a Local Election, because of Democratic and Aristocratic Jealousies

72. Martial Law

73. Life Council; Proxies; "Approved" Churches

74. The Wheelwright Controversy (Political Aspects)

75. Political and Social Conditions in New England before 1660

76. Some Relations with England, 1638

77. Democratic Discontent, 1639

78. The Body of Liberties, 1641

79. A Puritan View of Trade

80. The Separation of the Legislature into Two Houses

81. A Town Code of School Law

82. Colonial School Laws

83. Representative Town Records

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84. Puritan Arguments for and against Persecution

85. Criticism by a Moderate Episcopalian and Monarchist

86. A Presbyterian Demand for the Franchise, 1646

87. Punishment for not Attending "Approved" Churches, 1666

88. Quaker Persecutions

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89. A Compact in Civil Things Only, 1336(?)

90. Religious Freedom Consonant with Civil Order

91. Patent of Providence Plantations, March 14/24, 1643/1644

92. Rhode Island and the Quakers, 1657

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93. The Fundamental Orders of 1639

94. The Constitution

95. Massachusetts Demands More Weight

96. Nullification by Massachusetts

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97. The Connecticut Charter

98. The Rhode Island Charter

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99. Instructions for the Councill oppointed for Forraigne Plantations (1660) by Charles II

100. The Commercial Policy

101. The Duke of York's Charter for New York, March 12/22, 1663/4

102. Penn's Grant of Pennsylvania, March 4/14, 1680/88

103. Penn's Grants to the Pennsylvanians

104. Berkeley's Report on Virginia, 1671

105. The Franchise in Virginia again Restricted[108]

106. "Bacon's Laws," in Virginia (Political Discontent)

107. Bacon's Proclamation, July 30, 1676

108. Testimony of Political Discontent as a Cause of Bacon's Rebellion

109. Abolition of Bacon's Reforms for Virginia

110. Self-government in Massachusetts Decreased

111. Attempts by England at Closer Control after 1700

112. Commission of a Royal Governor

113. Free Speech Vindicated

114. Franklin's "Albany Plan," July 10, 1754[113]

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115. Legal Punishment in Virginia, 1662-1748

116. White Servants in 1774

117. Runaway Servants and Apprentices

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118. Sugar Act of 1764

119. Stamp Act

120. Reception of the Stamp Act in America

121. Origin of the Virginia Non-importation Agreement

122. The Origin of Massachusetts Town-Committees of Correspondence, 1772

123. Creation of Standing Intercolonial Committees of Correspondence, 1773

124. Tea Riots

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125. The Virginia Burgesses suggest an Annual Continental Congress

126. Another "Call" for the Continental Congress

127. A Virginia County Suggests a Continental Congress and a General Association

128. The First Call for a Provincial Convention (Virginia)

129. Typical Virginia County Instructions to Delegates to the First Provincial Convention

130. The First Continental Congress

131. Prince William County (Virginia) Committee, Approval of the Association

132. Virginia County "Conventions" become De Facto Governments

133. Virginia Provincial Conventions become Governments

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134. Virginia County Instructions for Independence, April 23, 1776

135. Instructions for Independence in the Virginia Convention (and Resolutions for an Independent State Government), May 15, 1776[130]

136. The Virginia Bill of Rights, June 12, 1776

137. The First Declaration of Independence by a State

138. Revolutionary State Governments

139. Instructions by "State" Conventions against Independence (January-May, 1776)

140. Motion in Congress for Independence

141. The Continental Declaration of Independence

142. Anti-Social Tendencies of the Pre-Revolutionary Measures

143. An Oath of Allegiance to a New State, 1777

144. A Loyalist's Suggestion of the Danger to American Liberty in the French Alliance, 1779

145. How the Revolution set free Social Forces

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146. Debates in the Continental Congress on the Articles of Confederation

147. Articles of Confederation.

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148. Desire for Statehood; Self-confidence of the West

149. Organization by Congress

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150. Danger (or Hope) of a Military Dictator (1783)

151. Shays' Rebellion

152. A Shrewd Foreign Observer's View of the Social Conflict over the Adoption of a New Constitution

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153. Call issued by the Annapolis Convention

154. Appointment of Delegates: Credentials (Georgia)

155. George Mason on the Preliminaries at Philadelphia

156. The Virginia Plan

157. George Mason on the Convention and its Aristocratic Tendencies (June, 1787)

158. The New Jersey Plan

159. Hamilton's Plan

160. Character Sketches of Delegates by William Pierce

161. One Day in the Philadelphia Convention

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162. George Mason's Objections to the Constitution, 1787

163. Mason's Explanation of the Preparation of his "Objections" (and Accusation of "Railroading" through the Plan of the Majority)

164. An Unfriendly Account of Hancock's Support of the Constitution in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention of 1788

165. The Federal Constitution

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