The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, Part 1: 1620-1926 (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources contains a virtual goldmine of information for researchers of American legal history—a fully searchable digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state and territorial codes, municipal codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests, and more. The collection brings together many important documents that have been lost, destroyed, or previously inaccessible to researchers of American legal history around the world.


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