Includes bibliographical references.

1821: Cohens v. Virginia / John Marshall -- Debate on Property and Suffrage / Nathan Sanford -- Speech / Martin Van Buren -- Speech / James Kent -- Speech / P.R. Livingston -- Speech / John Cramer -- Speech / David Buel, Jr. -- Speech / John Ross -- Speech / Peter Jay -- A Pessimistic View of Relations with Latin America / John Quincy Adams -- Motives for Stopping the Domestic Slave Trade -- 1822: On Sectarian Rivalry / Thomas Jefferson -- Pennsylvania Common Schools / William Duane -- Frontier Schools / Zerah Hawley -- A Religious Defense of Slavery / Richard Furman -- 1823: The Caribbean and Our National Interest / John Quincy Adams -- Russia and the Pacific Northwest / John Quincy Adams -- The Affinity of British and American Interest / Richard Rush -- America and Europe / James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson -- On America and the Holy Alliance / John Quincy Adams -- The Monroe Doctrine / James Monroe -- Fears About Prison Labor -- Curriculum Reform at Harvard / George Ticknor -- On the Louisiana Penal Code -- A Protest Against the Caucus System / Felix Grundy -- An Interpretation of the Constitution / John Taylor -- The Influence of America on the Mind / Charles J. Ingersoll -- "Home, Sweet Home" / John Howard Payne -- On Greek Independence / Edward Everett -- 1824: Debate on the Greek Revolution / Daniel Webster and John Randolph -- The Protective Tariff / Henry Clay -- The Circumstances Favorable to the Progress of Literature in America / Edward Everett -- Aldridge v. The Commonwealth of Virginia -- Gibbons v. Ogden / John Marshall -- The Beginning of Reform Judaism -- 1825: Inaugural Address / John Quincy Adams -- Child Labor in Massachusetts -- Education for Every Child of the Republic / Philip Lindsley -- Strike of Boston Carpenters -- Resolutions of the Journeymen Carpenters -- Resolutions of the Master Carpenters -- Resolutions of the Builders -- American Society as a Field for Fiction / William Cullen Bryant -- Songs of the Erie Canal -- On the Formation of New Laws / Edward Livingston -- Against Judicial Review -- The Courts and Public Opinion -- A Policy for Internal Improvements / John Quincy Adams -- On Participating in a Congress of American Nations / John Quincy Adams -- 1826: Report on Executive Patronage -- Backwoodsmen / Timothy Flint -- The Land West of the Rockies / Albert Gallatin -- Country Courting Songs -- 1827: First American High School Law -- Law as a Restraint on Power / Lemuel Shaw -- The First Negro Newspaper / Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm -- On Educating Negro Women -- A Plea for Manufacturing in the South -- A Union of Trade Associations -- 1828: Letters from the West / James Hall -- Observations by a German Visitor / Duke Bernhard -- The Nashoba Community -- On Popular Elections and on the American Girl / James Fenimore Cooper -- "Jump, Jim Crow" / Thomas Dartmouth Rice -- Curriculum Changes at Yale / Jeremiah Day and James Kingsley -- On Limiting the Power of the Supreme Court / Hugh S. Legare -- A petition for Free Use of Public Lands -- Abuses of the Apprentice Labor System -- On the Unconstitutionality of the Protective Tariff -- 1829: Sunday Observance and the Delivery of Mail / Richard M. Johnson -- The Inauguration of Andrew Jackson / Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith -- Of Existing Evils and Their Remedy / Frances Wright -- Demand for a Ten-Hour Day -- The Unequal Distribution of Property / Thomas Skidmore -- The Dangers of Slavery / William Lloyd Garrison -- The Profession of a Woman / Catharine Beecher -- The Dangers of Sectarian College / Philip Lindsley -- Lyceums and Popular Education / Josiah Holbrook -- American Painters and Painting / John Neal -- "To Science" / Edgar Allan Poe -- A Plea for Manhood Suffrage -- On the Degradation Cause by Universal Suffrage -- First Annual Message to Congress / Andrew Jackson -- 1830: Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable / Daniel Webster -- The Tree of Liberty / Zelotes Fuller -- Defense of a Government Bank / George McDuffie -- Corporate Power -- Veto of Maysville Road Bill / Andrew Jackson -- Labor Parties in New York -- The Importance of a University for New York City / George Bancroft -- A Tennessee Revival / Anne Royall -- Public Schools for Philadelphia: Equal Knowledge for Equal Liberty Against Equal Educations -- A System of Real Reciprocity / Henry Clay -- Nullification and the Rule of Law / James Madison -- Remarks on National Literature -- William Ellery Channing -- Association and Individual Action / William Ellery Channing -- On Indian Removal / Andrew Jackson -- "Shenandoah" -- 1831: For Immediate Abolition / William Lloyd Garrison -- A Negro View of Negro Prospects -- Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia / John Marshall -- The Mischiefs of a National Bank / Thomas Hart Benton -- Episcopal Rights and Parish Autonomy / Francis Patrick Kenrick -- "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" / Emma Hart Willard -- A Brief Exposure of Bar Associations / Frederick Robinson -- Defense of Mechanical Philosophy / Timothy Walker -- Political Economy and the Producers of Wealth / Stephen Simpson -- Confessions / Nat Turner -- 1831-1832: American Notes / Alexis de Toqueville -- 1832: Pro-Slavery Arguments / Thomas R. Dew -- Against Appointing Chaplains to the Legislature / David Moulton and Mordecai Myers -- "Hymn of the City" and "Spring in Town" / William Cullen Bryant -- Letter from the Yellowstone River / George Caitlin -- For and Against the Bank Renewal Bill / Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster -- The American Poor / Frances Trollope -- Manual for Emigrants to America / Calvin Colton -- "America" / Samuel Francis Smith -- On the Nee for Popular Education / Joseph Caldwell -- A Defense of Intellectual Freedom / Thomas Cooper -- South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification -- States' Rights and Nullification / John C. Calhoun -- The Threat of Disunion / Andrew Jackson.

A collections of primary source documents.