Primary sources are usually accurate considering they were written by someone at who witnessed a historical event personally, however some may be inaccurate due to human error.
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Statues are not the primary sources of U.S. laws, the primary source of U.S. laws is the constitution of the United States of America...
They are usually secondary sources, but can be a primary source depending on the topic of the dissertation. If you are looking for primary sources you might be able to find many primary sources within the bibliography of a dissertation, since most of these scholars would have most likely referred to primary documents while drafting their dissertation.
Generally no. A primary source is firsthand experience. As in, someone who was there, saw what happened, etc. Encyclopedias are secondary sources.
Writings from the time period of Spanish colonization.
When researching American independence or almost any founding-period subject, the Declaration of Independence is indeed a primary source. The difference between primary sources and secondary sources hinges on this simple distinction: a primary source is (or was) "there", while a secondary source is (or was) not "there" but instead talks "about" it.