Prologue: Iberian Antecedents
- Las Siete Partidas (1348)
- Romanus Pontifex (1455)
- Inter Caetera (1493)
- Requerimiento (1513)
- Royal Charter of 1518
- Early Spanish Slave Trade (1519/20)
- Petition to the Portuguese King (1526)
- New Laws of 1542
- Los Tres Mulatos (1599)
Ch 1: Debating Power & Empire
- James I – The True Law of Free Monarchies (1598)
- Elizabethean Statute of Artificers Marginalia (1603)
- Original Constitution of Carolina (1629)
- Charter of Maryland (1632)
- An Act Abolishing the Kingly Office, March 17, 1649
- The Trial of Charles I
- John Milton – Eikonoklastes (1649)
- Richard Ligon – A True and Exact History of Barbados (1657)
- Sir Robert Filmer – Patriarcha (1680)
Ch 2: Restoration Settlements
- Charles II Treason & Sedition Act (1661)
- Roger L’Estrange – In Order to the Regulation of Press (1663)
- Royal African Company Documents (1660 – 1667)
- Jamaica Slave Code (1664)
- Barbados Slave Code (1661 – 1667)
- Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669)
- Colonial State Papers (1670s)
- Enquiries to the Governor of Virginia (1671)
- Barbados Slave Rebellion (1675)
Ch 3: Reacting to Absolutism
- Butts v. Penny (1677)
- A Letter From Sir Thomas Grantham To a Member of Bacon’s Rebellion
- Habeas Corpus Act of 1679
- John Locke – An Essay on Reputation
- Morgan Godwyn – Trade Preferred Before Religion (1685)
- Marvell Andrew – A Collection of Poems On Affairs
- Roger L’Estrange – On Sedition Prosecutions (1663)
Ch 4: Glorious Revolutions?
- Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (c. 1680-1683)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- James Tyrrell – Bibliotheca Politica
- John Locke – Two Treatises of Government (1689)
- Lord Sunderland Correspondence on the Appointment of John Locke to Christ Church (1684)
- The Bloody Assizes: Or, A Complete History of the Life of George Lord Jefferies
- The Dominion of New England (1686)
Ch 6: Tory Reactions
- 1698 African Trade Act
- Virginia Slave Code 1705
- Robert Harley’s investigations into Bacon’s Rebellion (1676-1705)
- Queen Anne’s speech on the Assiento 1712
- Assiento and the Treaty of Utrecht 1710-1713
- Cato by Joseph Addison (1713)
- Hogarth’s South Sea Bubble Print (1720)
- Yorke Talbot Decision 1729