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• State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States (6 volumes; Philadelphia: Dept. of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1900-1906), ed. by Herman Vandenburg Ames (page images at HathiTrust)

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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)
• Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated (Richmond: Shepherd and Pollard, 1820), by John Taylor (multiple formats at Google)
• 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)
• A National Constitution: The Only Road to National Peace, by William Giles Dix (page images at MOA)
• About America: How the United States is Governed (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, c2004), by Paul A. Arnold (PDF at state.gov)

• American Domestic Priorities: An Economic Appraisal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), ed. by John M. Quigley and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (HTML at UC Press)
• An Introduction to State and Local Public Finance (c2000), by Thomas A. Garrett and John C. Leatherman (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• A Guide for State and Local Government Agencies: Cost Principles and Procedures for Establishing Cost Allocation Plans and Indirect Cost Rates for Grants and Contracts with the Federal Government (Washington: GPO, 1977), by United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Applications of R&D in the Civil Sector: The Opportunity Provided by the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (current electronic edition), by United States General Services Administration (searchable HTML at cfda.gov)

• Community Development Block Grant Program: Guide to National Objectives and Eligible Activities for Entitlement Communities (updated edition, 1998), by United States Office of Community Planning and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New Fiscal Federalism and the Social Safety Net: A View from California, ed. by James R. Hosek and Robert A. Levine (HTML at rand.org)

• Metropolitan Area Problems: The Role of the Federal Government (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1961), by Theodore M. Hutchison (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Davidian Massacre: Disturbing Questions About Waco Which Must Be Answered, by Carol Moore (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Federal Raid on Ruby Ridge, ID: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1997), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Frederick Michael Dolan (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Our Enemy, The State, by Albert Jay Nock (PDF at mises.org)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• 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)

• Inequality in Early America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999), ed. by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Adams Federalists (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Manning Julian Dauer (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Candice Lewis Bredbenner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Eleanor L. Hannah (PDF at Ohio State)

• Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Eleanor L. Hannah (PDF at Ohio State)

• Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by John McNelis O'Keefe (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by John McNelis O'Keefe (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism (Boston: South End Press, c1991), by Russ Bellant, contrib. by Chip Berlet (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Conservative Movement: Then and Now (Heritage Lectures #1; Washington: Heritage Foundation, c1980), by Russell Kirk (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Barry Cooper, Allan Kornberg, and William Mishler, contrib. by Joel Smith, Neil Nevitte, Marilyn B. Hoskin, Roy E. Fitzgerald, Norman C. Thomas, William James Booth, F. L. Morton, A. Kenneth Pye, James E. Alt, Ivor Crewe, Donald Searing, Mark N. Franklin, Roger Gibbins, Harold D. Clarke, Henry W. Chappell, William R. Keech, Michael Allen Gillespie, Michael Lienesch, and Morris P. Fiorina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Televangelism: Power and Politics on God's Frontier (based on the 1988 edition), by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Anson Shupe (HTML at Virginia)

• The Story of Civil Liberty in the United States (New York: Vanguard Press, American Civil Liberties Union, c1927), by Leon Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)

• Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Seth Forman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys: The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850 (originally published 1996; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Robert E. Shalhope (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Ballots of Tumult: A Portrait of Volatility in American Voting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1991), by Courtney Brown (PDF with commentary at courtneybrown.com)

• The Fundamentals of Campaign Finance in the U.S.: Why We Have the System We Have (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2024), by Diana Dwyre and Robin Kolodny (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Inequality in Early America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999), ed. by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Stuart Streichler (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Eagle's Talons: The American Experience at War (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1988), by Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Scott Douglas Gerber (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Stuart Streichler (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Presidential Accountability in Wartime: President Bush, the Treatment of Detainees, and the Laws of War (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Stuart Streichler (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics, by William C. Allen (PDF files at gpo.gov)

• Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age (c2008), ed. by Allison H. Fine, Micah L. Sifry, Andrew Rasiej, and Joshua Levy, contrib. by Esther Dyson (HTML and PDF with commentary at personaldemocracy.com)

• Forming American Politics: Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania (originally published 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alan Tully (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Forming American Politics: Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania (originally published 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alan Tully (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism (originally published 1978; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by David De Leon (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Color of Representation: Congressional Behavior and Black Interests (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Kenny J. Whitby (page images at HathiTrust)

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