From Magna Carta to the Constitution: Documents in the Struggle for Liberty, edited by David L. Brooks, is an interesting collection of documents.#

It contains:#

  1. Magna Carta (1215)
  2. The Mayflower Compact (1620)
  3. The Petition of Right (1628)
  4. An Agreement of the Free People of England (1649)
  5. The Bill of Rights (1689)
  6. Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress (1765)
  7. Declaration of the First Continental Congress (1774)
  8. The Declaration of Independence (1776)
  9. Articles of Confederation (1778)
  10. Constitution of the United States (1787)