A collection of historical documents presented by the Library of Congress, recording the construction and development of the United States of America. The documents provide a record of American history in the words of those who built the government. Titles in the collection concerned with the Constitutional Congress and the Constitutional Convention include: Journals of the Continental Congress, Eliot's Debates and Farrand's Record. Statutes and Documents include: Statutes at Large and the US Serial Set. Journals of Congress published on the site include: the House Journal, Senate Journal, Senate Executive Journal and Maclay's Journal. Debates of Congress are represented in the Annals of Congress, Register of Debates and Congressional Globe. Special collections feature the Impeachment Trial of President Andrew Johnson, the Journals of the Confederate Congress, and the Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920. Documents are presented as text and imaged pages from the original sources. A search across all Law titles from the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention and 1st - 24th Congresses 1774-1837 is available.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation : US Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873
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