Exploring First Amendment Law, Doug Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 2015
First Amendment Timeline, First Amendment Center
CRS Annotated Constitution: The Annotated First Amendment, Cornell Legal Information Institute
A collection of documents that influenced the formation and later interpretation of the Bill of Rights.
General Rights:
Magna Carta, 1215
Petition of Right, 1628
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776
Resolution of the First Congress Submitting Twelve Amendments to the Constitution, 1789
Ratification of the Bill of Rights, 1791
Freedom of Religion:
Charter of Rhode Island, 1663
Letter Concerning Toleration, John Locke, 1689
Connecticut dissenter statute, 1708
Virginia Ordinance for Religious Freedom, 1786
Freedom of Speech:
On Liberty, John Stuart Mill, 1859
Freedom of the Press:
Libel trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735
Federalist No. 84, Alexander Hamilton, 1787-1788
Freedom of Assembly:
Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774
The Bill of Rights, National Archives
The Bill of Rights: A Brief History, American Civil Liberties Union
The Bill of Rights: Its History and Significance, Doug Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 2015
Documentary History of the Bill of Rights, Constitution Society
Primary Documents in American History: The Bill of Rights, Library of Congress, 2015
Amar, Akhil Reed, The Bill of Rights: creation and reconstruction, Yale University Press (1998)
Cogan, Neil H., The complete Bill of Rights: the drafts, debates, sources, and origins, Oxford University Press (1997)
Garry, Patrick M., Limited government and the Bill of Rights, University of Missouri Press (2012)
Kasper, Eric T., To secure the liberty of the people: James Madison's Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court's interpretation, Northern Illinois University (2010)
Labunski, Richard E., James Madison and the struggle for the Bill of Rights, Oxford University Press (2006)
Levy, Leonard W., Origins of the Bill of Rights, Yale University Press (1999)
Lloyd, Gordon, The essential Bill of Rights: original arguments and fundamental documents, University Press of America (1998)
McWhirter, Robert James, Bills, quills, and stills: an annotated, illustrated, and illuminated history of the Bill of Rights, American Bar Association (2014)
Patrick, John J., The Bill of Rights: A History in Documents, Oxford University Press (2003)
Smith, Craig R., To form a more perfect union: the ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, 1787-1791, California State University (1993)