| Introduction |
| 1. | General Assembly of Maryland, An Act for the Liberties of the People, 1639 |
| 2. | The Body of Liberties of the Massachusets Collonie in New England, 1641 |
| 3. | William Penn, England's Present Interest Considered, with Honour to the Prince, and Safety to the People, 1675 |
| 4. | The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the Province of West New-Jersey, 3 Mar. 1677 |
| 5. | William Penn, The Excellent Priviledge of Liberty and Property Being the Birth-Right of the Free-born Subjects of England, 1687 |
| 6. | Bill of Rights, 2, 16 Dec. 1689 |
| 7. | Massachusetts House of Representatives, Circular Letter to the Colonial Legislatures, 11 Feb. 1768 |
| 8. | Samuel Adams, Boston Gazette, 27 Feb. 1769 |
| 9. | Slave Petition to the Governor, Council, and House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusetts, 25 May 1774 |
| 10. | Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, July 1774 |
| 11. | Continental Congress, Declaration and Resolves, 14 Oct. 1774 |
| 12. | Continental Congress to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec, 26 Oct. 1774 |
| 13. | Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 |
| 14. | Thomas Burke, Abstract of Debates in Congress, 25 Feb. 1777 |
| 15. | The Essex Result, 29 Apr. 1778 |
| 16. | Return of Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1 June 1778 |
| 17. | Return of Beverly, Massachusetts, 1 June 1778 |
| 18. | Massachusetts Constitution, A Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 2 Mar. 1780 |
| 19. | Thomas Jefferson to Garret Van Meter, 27 Apr. 1781 |
| 20. | Records of the Federal Convention |
| 21. | Richard Henry Lee to George Mason, 1 Oct. 1787 |
| 22. | Richard Henry Lee to Samuel Adams, 5 Oct. 1787 |
| 23. | James Wilson, State House Speech, 6 Oct. 1787 |
| 24. | Federal Farmer, no. 4, 12 Oct. 1787 |
| 25. | A Democratic Federalist, 17 Oct. 1787 |
| 26. | Brutus, no. 2, 1 Nov. 1787 |
| 27. | James Wilson, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 28 Nov. 4 Dec. 1787 |
| 28. | John Smilie, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 28 Nov. 1787 |
| 29. | Robert Whitehill, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 28 Nov. 1787 |
| 30. | Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 20 Dec. 1787 |
| 31. | Federal Farmer, no. 6, 25 Dec. 1787 |
| 32. | Federal Farmer, no. 16, 20 Jan. 1788 |
| 33. | Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, Ratification and Proposed Amendments, 6 Feb. 1788 |
| 34. | Alexander Contee Hanson, Aristides, Remarks on the Proposed Plan of a Federal Government, 1788 |
| 35. | A [Maryland] Farmer, no. 1, 15 Feb. 1788 |
| 36. | James Iredell, Marcus, Answers to Mr. Mason's Objections to the New Constitution, 1788 |
| 37. | Brutus, no. 15, 20 Mar. 1788 |
| 38. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 84, 575--81, 28 May 1788 |
| 39. | Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 5--16 June 1788 |
| 40. | Edmund Randolph, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 9, 17 June 1788 |
| 41. | Samuel Chase to John Lamb, 13 June 1788 |
| 42. | George Mason, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 16 June 1788 |
| 43. | Virginia Ratifying Convention, Proposed Amendments to the Constitution, 27 June 1788 |
| 44. | Thomas Tredwell, New York Ratifying Convention, 2 July 1788 |
| 45. | James Iredell, North Carolina Ratifying Convention, 28 July 1788 |
| 46. | Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 31 July 1788 |
| 47. | James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 17 Oct. 1788 |
| 48. | James Madison to George Eve, 2 Jan. 1789 |
| 49. | Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 15 Mar. 1789 |
| 50. | James Madison, House of Representatives, 8 June 1789 |
| 51. | House of Representatives, Report of the Select Committee on Amendments, 28 July 1789 |
| 52. | Debate in House of Representatives, 13--15, 22 Aug. 1789 |
| 53. | James Madison to Richard Peters, 19 Aug. 1789 |
| 54. | House of Representatives, Amendments, 24 Aug. 1789 |
| 55. | Senate, Amendments, 9 Sept. 1789 |
| 56. | Congress, Amendments Agreed to and Proposed to the States, 25 Sept. 1789 |
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