Links to Historic American Documents

Here are links to historic American documents, including treaties, constitutions, declarations, petitions, acts, etc. (Related topics: For historic oaths and pledges from ancient times to the early 20th century worldwide, refer to Historic Codes category; for the history of codes and code-making generally, refer to FAQs about codes: Their history category.)

• The Iroquois Constitution (1600?)
  
  
• First Virginia Charter (1606)
  
  
• The Mayflower Compact (1620)
  
  
• Covenants of New England (1620s and 1630s)
  
  
• The Cambridge Agreement (1629)
  
  
• The Petition of Right (1628)
  
  
• Bacon's Declaration of the People (1676)
  
  
• Charter of Privileges Granted by William Penn, esq. to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Territories (1701)
  
  
• Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York (1773)
  
  
• The Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
  
  
• The Declaration of Independence (1776)
  
  
• U.S. Articles of Confederation
  
  
• Treaty of Paris (1783)
  
  
• Bill of Rights (and Amendments to the U.S. Constitution)
  
  
• 1793 Proclamation of Neutrality (George Washington)
  
  
• Virginia Resolution (1798)
  
  
• The Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
  
  
• Treaty with the Choctaw (1786)
  
  
• Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
  
  
• Bill of Rights for the Territority of New Mexico (1846)
  
  
• I am an Abolitionist (song) 1848
  
  
• Declarations of Causes of Secession (Civil War) Georgia, etc.
  
  
• Gettysburg Address (1863)
  
  
• Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage (1867, Frederick Douglass)
  
  
• Fort Laramie Treaty with the Sioux Nation (1868)
  
  
• Hague Convention: Laws of War... (1899)
  
  
• Declaration of the Conservation Conference (1908)
  
  
• Covenant of the League of Nations (1919)
  
  
• North Atlantic Defense Treaty (NATO, 1949)
  
  
• Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (1950)
  
  
• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1968)
  
  
• War Powers Act (1973)
  
  
• Attack on America Proclamation (2001)
  
  
• Joint Resolution 61: Expressing the sense of the Senate and House of Representatives regarding the terrorist attacks launched against the United States on September 11, 2001