New Jersey State Library

New Jersey Documents:

The Colonial Period

• The Grant to Berkeley and Carteret, 1664
• Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, 1664
• The Declaration of True Intent, 1672
• King James' Grant to Carteret (1674) From the Avalon Project, Yale University
• Fundamental Laws of West New Jersey, Agreed Upon (1676) From the Avalon Project, Yale University.
• The Grant of 1680
• The Right of Government, 1681
• The Fundamental Agreements of 1681

• The Constitution of 1776
• The Constitution of 1844
• The Constitution of 1947

U.S. Documents:

European Roots

• The Magna Carta

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Necessity of Taking Up Arms
• The War Inevitable (1775)
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Articles of Confederation
• The Virginia Declaration of Rights
• The Constitution of the United States
• The Bill of Rights

• The Northwest Ordinance
• The Federalist Papers
• The Treaty of Greenville (1795)
• The Monroe Doctrine
• The Emancipation Proclamation
• The Gettysburg Address

• President Kennedy's First Inaugural Address
• Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" Speech (1963)