1 Alabama ♌| The scarce first printing of the Alabama Constitution

🀅2 American Revolution — Rev. Elias B.🅠 Hillard | Photographs of Revolutionary War veterans

3𒆙 American Anti-Slavery Society | An important founding document of the American abolitionist movement

4🧸 Articles of Confederation | "The said states hereby sꦚeverally enter into a firm league of friendship"

5 (Burr, Aaron) | "Probably the rarest and besꦰt account o🌞f the trial"

6 (Burr, Aaron)♛ | Jefferson accuses the former Vice President of treason

7 California | The first printing of thওe California Constitution

8 (Chase, Samuel) | An important precedent for independenc🐓e of the judiciary

9 (Chase, Samuel) | Another work on Chase's landmark trial reinforcing the independence of the judiciary

10 Choctaw Nation | "The earliest kn🌳own printing of Choctaw laws …&quo🌺t;

11 Confederate States of America |𒉰 Including the first printings of the first two versions of the Confederate ♈constitution

12 Connecticut | The end of church-ru🌺n states in America

13 Continental Congre༺ss | An important congressional precursors of the Declaration of Independ🌱ence

14 Continental Congres🐲s | &quꦛot;Read with Candour: Judge with Impartiality."

15 Continental Congress | ൲With an early printing of the Declaration of Independenc🔯e

16♋ Continental Congress | The first collected edition of the state constitutions

17 Da𓆏kota Territory | A🎶 scarce copy of the proceedings of a one-day convention

18 Dallas, Alexander J. | An important milestone in American legal 𒁏publishing

19 Declaration of Independence | The first book-form pri⛎nti♛ng of the Declaration of Independence

20 De🌄claration of Independence | The first printing inꦜ magazine form

21 Declaration of Independence | The first printing of the Declaration of Independence in Br𝄹itain

22 Declaration of Indepe𒁃ndence | A fine copy on paper of the first true facsimile of the engrossedཧ Declaration of Independence

23 Farrar, Timothy | A landmark Supre💎me Court ruling on the Contract Clause

24 Florida 🌠| The first constitution, which♊ built on the federal Bill of Rights

25 Georgia | A revised constitut♈ion, offering a✨ better balance of power

26 (Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay) 🅘| Praised by Georg💯e Washington as a "work [that] will merit the notice of Posterity"

27 Hawaii | The transition from an autocratic kingdom to a constituꦏtional monarchy

28 Kansas | The Wyandot Constitution of free ꦜKansas

29 (Magna Carta) | The first American printing

30 Massachusetts | ജUrging the establishment oꩵf a state constitution

31 Massachusetts | "The injustice and cruelty of Britain has driven 𝄹uౠs to a Declaration of Independence"

32ꦯ Mississippi | One of the first states to have an elected judiciary

33 Monroe, James | First pri🧜nting of the Monroe Doctrine

34 New York | Gulian C. Verplanck's copy of the first constitution of the state of New York

35 Olive Branch Petition | Th🔴e 🅠last concerted effort on the part of the Continental Congress to reconcile with Great Britain

36 Olive Branch Petition | A rare broadside, with the King's speech acknowledging American independence

37 Parl🦄iamentary Act. Reign of George III [The Stamp Act] | Government withou꧑t consent

38 Parliamentary 🐟Act. Reign of George III | The Repeal

39 Parliamentary Act. Reign of George III | The Indemnificওation

40 Parliamentary Act. Reign of George III | 🔜A final attempt to crush the Revolution by economic sanctions

41 Parliamentary Acts | A collection of approximately 26 Parliamentary Acts, mostl☂y relating to North America

42 Pennsylvania | The first independent🦩 state constitu🐓tion issued after the Declaration of Independence

43 Peters, Richard | The Supr♏eme Court rules that the Cherokee Nation is not a sov🎃ereign nation

44 Randolph, Edmund | A cornerstone work in the estab🐻lishment of the judiciary branch of the government

45 Scott, Dred — Benjamin 🎶C. Howard | "No Rights Which the White Man was Bound to Respect"

46 South Ca🍰rolina | First edition of an im𓄧portant compendium of laws and statutes

47 Sprengel, Mathias Christian | The first summary o💫f the American Revolution to appear in German after the war

48 Taney, Roger B. | A letter to John Kerr, discussing President J🏅ohn Adams and the Quasi-War with France