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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
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust; US access only
The American Revolution: A Constitutional Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Charles Howard McIlwain (multiple formats at archive.org)
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
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
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, by Sydney George Fisher (HTML at constitution.org)
Georgia and the Constitution (reprinted from the Magazine of American History, 1889), by Thaddeus K. Oglesby (page images at HathiTrust)
Sources of the Constitution of the United States, Considered in Relation to Colonial and English History (based on the second edition, 1894), by C. Ellis Stevens (HTML at constitution.org)
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)
A Brief Enquiry Into the True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government, by Abel Parker Upshur, ed. by C. Chauncey Burr (HTML at constitution.org)
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
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- both volumes: page images at MOA
The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union, by Max Farrand (Gutenberg text)
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)

Filed under: Constitutional history -- United States -- Early works to 1800

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

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The Federalist, Edited With Introduction and Notes (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, c1961), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, ed. by Jacob Ernest Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States (New York: Tudor Pub. Co., 1947), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, contrib. by Edward Gaylord Bourne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Federalist, a Commentary on the Constitution of the United States: A Collection of Essays by Alexander Hamilton, Jay and Madison; Also The Continentalist and Other Papers, by Hamilton (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1864), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, ed. by John C. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
The Federalist, a Commentary on the Constitution of the United States: A Collection of Essays by Alexander Hamilton, Jay and Madison; Also The Continentalist and Other Papers, by Hamilton (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1871), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, ed. by John C. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
The Federalist Papers, by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
- HTML at congress.gov
- Gutenberg text
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)
The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, As Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 (2 volumes; New York: J. and A. M'Lean, 1788), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
- both volumes bound together: multiple formats at archive.org
- both volumes: HTML at Evans TCP
The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788 (new editions, with an appendix and Madison's revisions of his papers; Hallowell, ME: Masters, Smith and Co, 1857), by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
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)
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
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

Filed under: Representative government and representation -- United States

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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