
The library now subscribes to The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926.
This database is a fully searchable digital archive of over 1,300 titles sourced primarily from the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University. It includes:
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a comprehensive collection of early codes and code-like compilations from all the states
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state constitutional conventions and compilations, including reports, journals, proceedings, and debates, as well as supplementary documents such as manuals and rules of order
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texts of enacted and proposed city charters, along with opinions of legal city officers
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all major American law dictionaries, with coverage up to 1926
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the published records of the American colonies
You can access the database here.






