Constitutional history -- United States -- Sources
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The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay (multiple editions)- Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States (House document #398, 69th Congress, session 1: Washington: GPO, 1927), ed. by Charles Callan Tansill
- The Founders' Constitution, ed. by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner (HTML at Chicago)
- Journals of the Continental Congress (Library of Congress edition, 34 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1904-1937), by United States Continental Congress, ed. by Worthington Chauncey Ford, Gaillard Hunt, John Clement Fitzpatrick, and Roscoe R. Hill (HTML and page images with commentary at loc.gov)
- The Articles of Confederation (HTML with commentary at Yale)
- The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, by James Madison, ed. by Jon Roland (HTML at constitution.org)
- The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America, by James Madison, ed. by Gaillard Hunt and James Brown Scott (HTML at Yale)
- Journal, Acts and Proceedings of the Convention, Assembled at Philadelphia, Monday, May 14, and Dissolved Monday, September 17, 1787, Which Formed the Constitution of the United States (Boston: T. B. Wait, 1819), by United States Constitutional Convention (1787)
- The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (3 volumes; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1911), by United States Constitutional Convention (1787), ed. by Max Farrand
- Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, From the First Meeting Thereof to the Dissolution of the Confederation, by the Adoption of the Constitution of the United States (4 volumes; Boston: T. B. Wait, 1820), by United States Continental Congress
- Essays on the Constitution of the United States, Published During its Discussion by the People (Brooklyn, NY: Historical Printing Club, 1892), ed. by Paul Leicester Ford (Gutenberg multiple formats)
- Journals of Congress (13 volumes; published 1777-1788), by United States Continental Congress
- Volume I (1774-1775): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (1776): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (1777): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (1778): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V (1779): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (1780): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII (1781): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII (Nov 1782-Nov 1783): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IX (Nov 1783-Nov 1784): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume X (Nov 1784-Nov 1785): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XI (Nov 1785-Nov 1786): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XII (Nov 1786-Nov 1787): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XIII (Nov 1787-Nov 1788): multiple formats at archive.org
- Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Florida, Begun and Held at the Capitol in the City of Tallahassee, on Thursday, January 3, A. D. 1861 (Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian and Journal, 1861), by Florida Secession Convention (1861-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois (1869), by Illinois (page images at MOA)
- Government of Indiana (New York: Scribner, 1912), by Demarchus Clariton Brown (multiple formats at Indiana)
- Report of the Proceedings and Debates in the Convention to Revise the Constitution of the State of Michigan (1850), by Michigan Constitutional Convention (page images at MOA)
- The Debates and Proceedings of the Minnesota Constitutional Convention Including the Organic Act of the Territory, by Minnesota Constitutional Convention (page images at MOA)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Constitutional history -- United States- The Federalist: A Classic on Federalism and Free Government (originally published 1960; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gottfried Dietze (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Foundational Documents of the American Legal System (Chicago: eLangdell Press, 2014), contrib. by United States (multiple formats at cali.org)
- Undermining the Constitution: A History of Lawless Government (New York: Devin-Adair Co., 1950), by Thomas James Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism in America, 1760-1848 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1977), by William M. Wiecek (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- When Virginia Joined the Union: A Backward Look at the Powerful Prophecy of Men Who Foresaw in 1788 the Trend of Events in 1963 (Richmond: Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, 1963), by James Jackson Kilpatrick
- Sources of the Constitution of the United States, Considered in Relation to Colonial and English History (second edition, revised and enlarged; New York and London: Macmillan and Co., 1927), by C. Ellis Stevens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Charles Howard McIlwain
- The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution of the United States, by James M. Beck (Gutenberg text)
- Deklaratsiia Nezavisimosti; Stati Konfederatsii; Konstitutsiia Soedinennykh Shtatov (in Russian; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1919), by United States, ed. by James Brown Scott
- An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Charles A. Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States: Showing that it is a Development of Progressive History and not an Isolated Document Struck Off at a Given Time or an Imitation of English or Dutch Forms of Government (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1897), by Sydney George Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Georgia and the Constitution (reprinted from the Magazine of American History, 1889), by Thaddeus K. Oglesby (page images at HathiTrust)
- History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States of America. (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1882), by George Bancroft
- This Constitution of Ours (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1940), by Florence Ellinwood Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mr. Justice Black and His Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Tinsley E. Yarbrough (page images at HathiTrust)
- Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, by Joseph Story (HTML at utulsa.edu)
- A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States (2 volumes; Philadelphia et al.: National Pub. Co.; Chicago and St. Louis: Zeigler, McCurdy and Co., c1868-1870), by Alexander H. Stephens
- The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union, by Max Farrand (Gutenberg text)
- The Federal Government: Its Nature and Character; Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (New York: Van Evrie, Horton and Co., 1868), by A. P. Upshur, ed. by C. Chauncey Burr (multiple formats at archive.org)
- John Marshall and the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Supreme Court, by Edward S. Corwin (Gutenberg text)
- Recent Changes in American Constitutional Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1923), by John William Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)
- Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by J. G. Randall (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Congress, the Constitution and the Supreme Court (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1925), by Charles Warren (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Jubilee of the Constitution: A Discourse (1839), by John Quincy Adams (HTML at lonang.com)
- Public and Republic: Political Representation in America, by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)
- A Remedy for the Defects of the Constitution, by Andrew Jackson Wilcox (page images at MOA)
- The U.S. Constitution: A National Historic Landmark Theme Study, by Harry A. Butowsky (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)
- A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (3 volumes; London: Printed for C. Dilly, 1787-1788), by John Adams
- A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (single-volume reprint of volume 1 of the London edition; Philadelphia: Printed for Hall and Sellers et al., 1787) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second day of March, 1778 (second edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for J. Stockdale, 1794), by John Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second Day of March, 1778 (third edition, 3 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed for William Cobbett, 1797), by John Adams
- Constitutional Commentary (full serial archives)
- A Citizen Legislature (1985), by Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips (HTML at well.com)
- Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century (2020), by American Academy of Arts and Sciences (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at amacad.org)
- By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by John Gastil (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Erik J. Engstrom
- A Plea for the Introduction of Responsible Government and the Representation of Capital Into the United States as Safeguards Against Communism and Disunion (Springfield, IL: Printed for the author by J. C. Hughes, 1879), by Van Buren Denslow (multiple formats at archive.org)
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