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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Sources Bronnen (vorm) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Founding the Republic. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995 (DLC) 95007537 (OCoLC)32167549 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John J Patrick |
ISBN: | 0313008485 9780313008481 0313292264 9780313292262 1280869143 9781280869143 |
OCLC Number: | 51917018 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 272 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | 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). |
Series Title: | Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues. |
Responsibility: | edited by John J. Patrick. |
Abstract:
Unique to this collection are documents relating to the establishment of constitutional governments in the original 13 states, debate over the Bill of Rights, and documents reflecting a variety of alternative voices, including letters and petitions from women and African-American and Native-American leaders.
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