The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926

Based primarily on holdings of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University, The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 includes early state codes, city charters, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history.  For a complete introduction to the sources contained in the database, see http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/MMLP?locID=chic_rbw&ste=30 in the Essays section of the website.   Advanced Search includes fulltext searching, returning a list of documents containing your search term(s).  The record for each result shows the page numbers and image numbers of the pages where the search term is found.  The collection may be browsed alphabetically by title or author as well, and all the materials are available in PDF format and can be printed/downloaded.