http://patriotpost.us/histdocs/

This is an admittedly right leaning website but it has actual historical documents you won't find in their entirety anywhere else. When you need reference material, you need go no further. Here are just some examples.

Before 1776

• The Code of Hammurabi (circa 1727-1680 BC)
• The Ten Commandments (BC)
• The Constitutions of Clarendon (1164)
• The Magna Carta (June 15, 1215)
• The Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
• Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus (1492)
• Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh (March 25, 1584)
• Mayflower Compact (November 11, 1620)
• The Act of Surrender of the Great Charter of New England to His Majesty (1635)
• Fundamental Agreement, or Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven (1639)
• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
• Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire (1639)
• The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England (May 19, 1643)
• The Maryland Toleration Act (Sept. 21, 1649)
• The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (1676)
• English Bill of Rights (1689)
• John Locke: The Second Treatise of Government (1689)
• Albany Plan of Union (1754)
• Colonial Charters (1606-1732)

Great resource. Thanks Missileer!

Magnificent, thank you


I find this quite interesting,lol :

1. If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house. But if the river prove that the accused is not guilty, and he escape unhurt, then he who had brought the accusation shall be put to death, while he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.