Avalon Project: Fundamental Orders of 1639

Yale's School of Law provides the text of the ten original amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.

Today we discuss the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.

The original text of a plan presented by Charles Pinckney to The Second Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787.

The text of the legal document granting the province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason in 1622.

The featured movie focuses on the ancestry of our four-footed friends. Find the fundamental pattern of their limbs and vertebrae in fossils of fish. After viewing, biology learners can enjoy interactive websites to zoom in on the...

The Avalon Project, at the Yale Law School, provides the actual text of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Click on Connecticut for a list of and links to the colony's earliest government documents establishing its laws, religious toleration, and means of taxation.

Young scholars analyze copies of primary source documents and list similarities between the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut and the United States Constitution following a review of culture and government of the 17th century.

Links to four documents in which Adolph Hitler justifies his invasion of Poland and his response to Great Britain's objection to that act. Very interesting reading.

Read the text of the Albany Plan of Union which advocated a union of the colonies under a royal governor. Although not adopted, it was the first step in colonial unification.