The 'documents' section for the most part contains texts of documents that I have annotated. For access to documents unhampered by my opinions, or that I haven't yet annotated, these links will be useful.

Yale's Avalon project has some claim to be the most comprehensive collection of digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. The home page is at The Avalon project. Specific documents include:

	The Code of Hammurabi
	Constitution of Athens
	Aristotle's account of its early development and how it was in his time.
	The Salic Law (5th century)
	The most famous provision is in Title LIX section 6 'But of Salic land no portion of the inheritance shall come to a woman: but the whole inheritance of the land shall come to the male sex'. Which is why the Queen isn't Queen of much of Germany too.
	Some Anglo-Saxon laws
	Capitulary of Charlemagne
	The dispositions of an absolute monarch. Section 26 is worth attention - Chief Justice Marshall would not have approved.
	Edward I's Confirmation of the Charters
	Taxation only with consent.
	Penn's original constitution for Pennsylvania
	It would almost satisfy Thomas Paine - except that Penn, interestingly, sees himself effectively as an hereditary constitutional monarch (though owing allegiance to the King).

Another useful collection is at the Heritage site, devoted to 'Examining the Roots of Constitutional Government, in the United States & Around the World'. It is particularly useful for:

	Thomas Paine
	A collection of his works.

and the constitutions of a number of different - and contrasting - countries

	Canada	China	Chile	France
	Germany	India	Iran	Japan
	Mexico	Nicaragua	The Philippines

though the main result of reading most of them is to realise how pointless a written constitution can be in determining what actually happens in a society.