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• A Sociology of Transnational Constitutions: Social Foundations of the Post-National Legal Structure (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016), by Chris Thornhill (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Studies in History and Jurisprudence (2 volumes; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1901), by James Bryce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Studies in History and Jurisprudence (New York and London: Oxford University Press, American branch, c1901), by James Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Strategy of Culture (1952), by Harold A. Innis (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Journal of the Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Alabama, Held in the City of Montgomery, Commencing May 21st, 1901 (Montgomery, AL: Brown Printing Co., 1901), by Alabama Constitutional Convention (1901)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Minutes of the Constitutional Convention of the Territory of Arizona (1910), by Arizona (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Constitution and Schedule of the Provisional Government of the Territory of Arizona, and the Proceedings of the Convention Held at Tucson (Tucson: J. H. Wells, 1860), by Arizona (PDF at azlibrary.gov)

• Official Report of the National Australasian Convention Debates (3 sessions, 1897-1898)
  • first session: HTML and PDF at University of Sydney
  • second session: HTML and PDF at University of Sydney
  • third session: HTML and PDF at University of Sydney

• Apuntes Para la Historia de Bolivia: Año de 1871 (in Spanish; La Paz: Impr. de la Union Americana, 1880), by Jenaro Sanjinés
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Donna Lee Van Cott (page images at Pitt)

• The Federation of Canada, 1867-1917: Four Lectures Delivered in the University of Toronto in March, 1917, to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Federation, by George McKinnon Wrong, John Willison, Z. A. Lash, and Robert Falconer (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)

• The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Donna Lee Van Cott (page images at Pitt)

• A Constitutional History of Georgia, 1732-1945 (may be incorrectly labeled as later edition; Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1948), by Albert Berry Saye (PDF at Georgia)

• The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 (third edition, revised; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1906), ed. by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Constitutional History of England, From the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II (New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1871), by Henry Hallam (page images at MOA)
• The Constitutional History of England, From the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II (New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1874), by Henry Hallam (page images at MOA)
• The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860 (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862-3), by Thomas Erskine May (page images at MOA)
• The English Constitution (second edition, 1873), by Walter Bagehot
  • PDF at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• Sources of the Constitution of the United States, Considered in Relation to Colonial and English History (second edition, revised and enlarged; New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1927), by C. Ellis Stevens (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Constitutional History of England, From 1760 to 1860 (1882), by Charles Duke Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Les Constitutions d'Haïti (1801-1885) (in French; Paris: C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1886), by Louis Joseph Janvier
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Florida

• The Embassador and His Functions; To Which is Added, An Historical Discourse, Concerning the Election of the Emperor and the Electors (London: Printed for B. Lintott, ca. 1716), by Abraham de Wicquefort, trans. by John Digby
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Journal of the Convention, Assembled at Springfield, June 7, 1847, by Illinois (page images at Google)

• Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory (1903), by Duncan Black Macdonald (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Italy in Transition: The Long Road from the First to the Second Republic (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1998), ed. by Paolo Janni (PDF at crvp.org)
• Impero e Papato Nella Tradizione Giuridica Bolognese e Nel Diritto Pubblico Italiano del Rinascimento (Sec. XIV-XV) (in Italian, as issued in Atti e memorie della R. Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Romagna; Bologna: Presso la R. Deputazione de Storia Patria, 1911), by Francesco Ercole
  • offprint; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • as part of serial volume: page images at archive.org

• Democratizing Japan: The Allied Occupation (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, c1987), ed. by Robert E. Ward and Yoshikazu Sakamoto, contrib. by Akira Amakawa, Hans H. Baerwald, Theodore McNelly, Masahide Ōta, Hideo Ōtake, T. J. Pempel, Susan J. Pharr, Yoshikazu Sakamoto, Kurt Steiner, Eiji Takemae, Hideo Tanaka, and Kenzō Uchida (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• The Debates, Resolutions, and Other Proceedings, of the Convention of Delegates, Assembled at Portland on the 11th, and Continued Until the 29th Day of December, 1819, for the Purpose of Forming a Constitution for the State of Maine (1820), by Maine (page images at Google)

• Primul Proiect de Constitutiune a Moldovei din 1822 (extract from Analele Academiei Romane, series 2 v20, in Romanian; Bucharest: C. Göbl, 1898), by A. D. Xenopol
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Digest of the Kingdom of the Netherlands: Constitutional Organization (ca. 1960), by Netherlands (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Journal of Proceedings, Constitutional Convention of 1942, by New Jersey (page images at Rutgers)
• Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention to Form a Constitution for the Government of the State of New Jersey (Trenton: Printed by Franklin S. Mills, 1844), by New Jersey (page images at Rutgers)
• Speeches on the Constitution of New Jersey (1943), by Charles A. Edison (page images at Rutgers)
• A New Constitution for New Jersey: Addresses by Charles Edison, former governor of New Jersey, 1941-1944, by Charles A. Edison (page images at Rutgers)

• Constitution of the State of New Mexico (1872), by New Mexico Legislative Assembly (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Journal of a Convention Assembled at the City of Raleigh, on the 10th of November, 1823, To Adopt Such Measures As Were Deemed Necessary to Procure and Amendment to the Constitution of North-Carolina, by North Carolina (page images at Google)
• Executive Documents, Convention, Session 1865: Constitution of North Carolina, With Amendments, and Ordinances and Resolutions Passed by the Convention, Session 1865 (Raleigh: Cannon and Holden, 1865), by North Carolina Constitutional Convention (multiple formats at Google)

• Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the First Constitutional Convention of North Dakota (1889), by North Dakota (page images at Google; US access only)

• Report, Together with the Proceedings of the Convention and Other Appendices, Presented to Parliament Pursuant to Section 2(2) of the Northern Ireland Act 1974, by Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (1975-1976) (HTML at CAIN)

• Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Ohio. 1850-51, by Ohio (page images at MOA)

• The Senate of the Roman Republic: Addresses on the History of Roman Constitutionalism (Washington: GPO, 1995), by Robert C. Byrd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Development of the Roman Constitution (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889), by Ambrose Tighe
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Researches into the History of the Roman Constitution, With an Appendix Upon the Roman Knights (London: W. Pickering, 1853), by W. Ihne, trans. by Francis Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• State and Family in Early Rome (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1908), by Charles W. L. Launspach (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Les Institutions Politiques des Romains (in French, 2 volumes; Paris: G. Pedone-Lauriel, 1882-1883), by J.-B. Mispoulet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Politics as Development: The Emergence of Political Parties in Nineteenth Century Serbia (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by Gale Stokes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Constitutional History of South Carolina From 1725 to 1775 (dissertation; Abbeville, SC: H. Wilson, printer, 1899), by David Duncan Wallace (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas, Begun and Held at the City of Austin, September 6th, 1875 (Galveston: Printed for the Convention at the "News" Office, 1875), by Texas Constitutional Convention (1875) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reports, by Texas Constitutional Convention (1875) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Constitution or Form of Government of the State of Texas: Made in General Convention, in the Town of San Felipe De Austin, in the Month of April, 1833 (New Orleans, LA: Printed at the Office of the Commercial bulletin, 1833) (PDF at Yale)
• Message of Governor A. J. Hamilton to the Texas State Convention, Delivered February 10, 1866 (Austin, TX: State gazette book and job office, 1866), by Andrew Jackson Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)

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