Citizen Tom

This page lists documents/websites relevant to our history. By no means, however, is this list intended to be comprehensive. If you need such a list, see the reference websites at the bottom.

Founding Documents of the United States of America and Legal Code

• Declaration of Independence
• Articles of Confederation
• The United States Constitution
• U.S. Code

Laws of the Virginia Commonwealth

In many respects the Virginia’s official website (here) is surprisingly well organized. If you want to find information on Virginia’s laws, start here.

• Constitution of Virgina
• Code of Virgina

Local

• Prince William County Code (Weirdly directs the user to a private web site. Portions of the code are available on-line for free. I suppose the use of a private vendor is suppose to save us money, but the cost of the complete Prince William County, VA Code of Ordinances, excluding sales taxes, is $344.24.).
• Freedom of Information Act (Virginia has its own version and it applies to local and state government.

Related Historic Documents

• 384 BC-322 BC - Politics: A Treatise on Government, by Aristotle
• 1297 -Magda Carta
• 1689 - Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke
• 1774-1779 - The American Crisis, by Thomas Paine
• 1776 -Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
• 1776 - Virginia Declaration of Rights
• 1787 -The Virgina Plan
• 1787 - 1788 -The Federalist Papers or here at Project Gutanberg

References

State and Local

• History of Virginia, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Prince William County, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Virginia Historical Society short history of state, with teacher guide
• Virginia History: Virginia Is For Lovers - oriented towards tourism
• Virginia History and Culture Resources on the Internet - oriented towards tourism
• Books and Maps about Historic Prince William County

National

• 100 Milestone Documents
• National Archives
• Library of Congress
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School

You are welcome to nominate websites that I should include in this list, and this page is open for comments on the documents on this list. However, comments will eventually be deleted.