| Introduction |
| 1. | John Winthrop, The History of New England 1:360--63; 2:277, 279--83, 1639 1645 |
| 2. | John Locke, Second Treatise, §§ 157--58, 1689 |
| 3. | Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, bk. 11, CH. 6, 1748 |
| 4. | James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, 1764 |
| 5. | John Adams, Clarendon, no. 3, 27 Jan. 1766 |
| 6. | Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, 1770 |
| 7. | Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol, 3 Nov. 1774 |
| 8. | James Burgh, Political Disquisitions 1:26--29, 36--38, 80--82, 1774 |
| 9. | John Adams, Thoughts on Government, Apr. 1776 |
| 10. | John Adams to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776 |
| 11. | Richard Henry Lee to Mrs. Hannah Corbin, 17 Mar. 1778 |
| 12. | The Essex Result, 29 Apr. 1778 |
| 13. | Instructions of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1779 |
| 14. | Return of Northampton, Massachusetts, 22 May 1780 |
| 15. | Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 13, 118--19, 1784 |
| 16. | George Washington to Bushrod Washington, 15 Nov. 1786 |
| 17. | John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787 |
| 18. | James Wilson, Federal Convention, 6 June 1787 |
| 19. | Alexander Hamilton, Federal Convention, 18 June 1787 |
| 20. | Federal Farmer, no. 2, 9 Oct. 1787 |
| 21. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 10, 62--63, 22 Nov. 1787 |
| 22. | Federal Farmer, no. 7, 31 Dec. 1787 |
| 23. | Federal Farmer, no. 8, 3 Jan. 1788 |
| 24. | Federal Farmer, no. 9, 4 Jan. 1788 |
| 25. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 35, 218--22, 5 Jan. 1788 |
| 26. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 36, 222--24, 8 Jan. 1788 |
| 27. | Luther Martin, Genuine Information, 1788 |
| 28. | Fisher Ames, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 15 Jan. 1788 |
| 29. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 49, 340--43, 2 Feb. 1788 |
| 30. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 55, 372--74, 13 Feb. 1788 |
| 31. | Republicus, 16 Feb. 1788 |
| 32. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 58, 395--96, 20 Feb. 1788 |
| 33. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 63, 427--28, 1 Mar. 1788 |
| 34. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 71, 482--83, 18 Mar. 1788 |
| 35. | George Mason, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 4 June 1788 |
| 36. | James Madison, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 20 June 1788 |
| 37. | Melancton Smith, New York Ratifying Convention, 20--21 June 1788 |
| 38. | Alexander Hamilton, New York Ratifying Convention, 21 June 1788 |
| 39. | Debate in House of Representatives, 15 Aug. 1789 |
| 40. | Thomas Paine, Dissertation on the First Principles of Government, 1795 |
| 41. | St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 193--94, 1803 |
| 42. | James Madison, Note to His Speech on the Right of Suffrage, 1821 |
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