Early State Constitutions

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Connecticut
HTML Version or Menu 1662 Constitution (in effect until 1818)
Delaware
HTML Version or Menu 1776 Constitution
Georgia
HTML Version or Menu 1777 Constitution
Maryland
HTML Version or Menu 1776 Constitution
Massachusetts
HTML Version or Menu 1691 Charter
HTML Version or Menu 1725 Explanatory Charter (minor modification of the 1691 charter)
HTML Version or Menu 1780 Constitution (first state constitution submitted to the people for appoval)
New Hampshire
HTML Version or Menu 1776 Constitution
New Jersey
HTML Version or Menu 1776 Constitution
New York
HTML Version or Menu 1777 Constitution
North Carolina
HTML Version or Menu 1776 Constitution
Pennsylvania
HTML Version or Menu 1776 Constitution
Rhode Island
HTML Version or Menu 1663 Constitution (used through Revolutionary era)
South Carolina
HTML Version or Menu 1776 Constitution (before independence)
HTML Version or Menu 1778 Constitution
Virginia
HTML Version or Menu 1611 Third Charter
HTML Version or Menu 1621 Ordinances (supplemented charter)
HTML Version or Menu 1776 Constitution

Source: The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America, Compiled and Edited Under the Act of Congress of June 30, 1906 by Francis Newton Thorpe
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909.

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Original URL: http://constitution.org/cons/early_state_cons.htm
Maintained: Jon Roland of the Constitution Society
Original date: 2013/05/24 —