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Part I. The decision for independence : reasons for and against separation from Britain, 1775-1776. --
Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms (July 6, 1775) --
Proclamation by the king for suppressing rebellion and sedition (August 23, 1775) --
Common sense (Thomas Paine, January 10, 1776) --
The true interest of America impartially stated (published anonymously by the Reverend Charles Inglis, March 1776) --
Resolution for independence (June 7, 1776) --
Notes on the debate in congress on independence (Thomas Jefferson, June 7-July 4, 1776) --
The Declaration of independence (July 4, 1776) --
Part II. Making constitutions for the new American states : debates on models of good government, 1776-1780. The people the best governors : or a plan of government founded on the just principles of natural freedom (published anonymously in New Hampshire, 1776) --
Thoughts on government: applicable to the present state of the American colonies (in a letter from a gentleman [John Adams] to his friend, April 1776) --
The Virginia declaration of rights (June 12, 1776) --
Preamble to the Pennsylvania constitution (August 1776) --
Pennsylvania declaration of rights (August 1776) --
The Essex result (Theophilus Parsons, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1778) --
Preamble to the Massachusetts constitution (1780) --
The Massachusetts declaration of rights (1780). Part III. Problems of equality and liberty in the new American states, 1776-1792. Letter to John Adams (Abigail Adams, March 31, 1776) --
Letter to James Sullivan (John Adams, May 26, 1776) --
Petition against slavery to the General Court of Massachusetts (January 13, 1777) --
Quock Walker's case (1783) --
Memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments (James Madison, June 20, 1785) --
The Virginia statute for religious freedom (Thomas Jefferson, January 16, 1786) --
Letter from three Seneca leaders to President George Washington (1790) --
A sermon against slavery (the Reverend James Dana, September 9, 1791) --
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (Benjamin Banneker, August 19, 1791) --
Letters to Benjamin Banneker and to the Marquis de Condorcet (Thomas Jefferson, August 30, 1791) --
Part IV. The crisis of government under the Articles of confederation, 1781-1787. The Articles of confederation (1781) --
Circular letter to the state governors (George Washington, June 8, 1783) --
Letter to Samuel Adams (Richard Henry Lee, March 14, 1785) --
Letter to George Washington (John Jay, June 27, 1786) --
Letter to John Jay (George Washington, August 1, 1786) --
Proceedings of the state commissioners at Annapolis, Maryland (September 11-14, 1786) --
Letter to Edward Carrington (Thomas Jefferson, January 16, 1787) --
Letter to James Madison (Thomas Jefferson, January 30, 1787) --
Northwest ordinance (July 13, 1787). Part V. The Federal Convention and the Constitution, 1787. Letter to George Washington (James Madison, April 16, 1787) --
Virginia plan (Reported by James Madison, May 29, 1787) --
Debate on the Virginia plan (June 6, 1787) --
Report of the committee of the whole (June 13, 1787) --
New Jersey plan (June 15, 1787) --
Debate on the New Jersey and Virginia plans (June 16, 1787) --
Debate on slavery (August 21-22, 1787) --
Signing the Constitution and concluding the convention (September 17, 1787) --
The Constitution of the United States of America, signed by thirty-nine delegates to the Federal Convention (September 17, 1787) --
Part VI. Debate on the Constitution : Federalists versus Anti-Federalists, 1787-1788. Essay I (Brutus, October 18, 1787) --
The Federalist 1 (Publius [Alexander Hamilton], October 27, 1787) --
Letter to the General Court of Massachusetts (Elbridge Gerry, November 3, 1787) --
Objections to the Constitution (George Mason, November 22, 1787) --
The Federalist 10 (Publius [James Madison], November 22, 1787) --
Letter IV (Agrippa [James Winthrop], December 4, 1787) --
The Federalist 39 (Publius [James Madison], January 16, 1788) --
The Federalist 51 (Publius [James Madison], February 6, 1788) --
Essay XV (Brutus, March 20, 1788) --
The Federalist 78 (Publius [Alexander Hamilton], May 28, 1788). Part VII. The first federal Congress and the Bill of Rights, 1788-1792. Letter to James Madison (Thomas Jefferson, December 20, 1787) --
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution proposed by the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (February 6, 1788) --
Amendments to the U.S. Constitution proposed by the New York Ratifying Convention (July 26, 1788) --
Letter to Thomas Jefferson (James Madison, October 17, 1788) --
Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives (James Madison, June 8, 1789) --
Amendments passed by the U.S. Congress (September 25, 1789) --
The Bill of Rights, Amendments I-X to the U.S. Constitution (Ratified December 15, 1791 and Certified by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, in a Letter to the State Governors, March 1, 1792). |
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