Acts and laws, made and passed by the General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's English colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America : holden at New-Haven, in said colony, on the Second Thrusday of October, in the fourteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great-Britain, &c. Annoque Domini, 1774.

After nearly 60 years of collecting, Sid Lapidus ’59 has presented to the Library more than 2700 volumes representing the fruits of his enthusiasm. Broadly conceived, the collection charts the definition and re-definiton of rights and liberties endemic to Western political traditions. The main focus is texts and documents relating to the American Revolution, its run-up dating back to the Commonwealth men, and coming down to documents of the early Federal government.