| Introduction |
| 1. | The Putney Debates, 29 Oct. 1647 |
| 2. | James Harrington, Commonwealth of Oceana 70--75, 1656 |
| 3. | Thomas Gordon, Cato's Letters, no. 45, 16 Sept. 1721 |
| 4. | Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, bk. 15, CHS. 1, 4--8, 1748 |
| 5. | Benjamin Franklin to John Waring, 17 Dec. 1763 |
| 6. | William Eddis, Letters from America, 20 Sept. 1770 17 Feb. 1772 |
| 7. | Patrick Henry to Robert Pleasants, 18 Jan. 1773 |
| 8. | Gouverneur Morris to John Penn, 20 May 1774 |
| 9. | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 |
| 10. | John Adams to Abigail Adams, 14 Apr. 1776 |
| 11. | Pennsylvania Evening Post, 27 Apr. 1776 |
| 12. | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 7 May 1776 |
| 13. | John Adams to James Sullivan, 26 May 1776 |
| 14. | Democraticus, Loose Thoughts on Government, 7 June 1776 |
| 15. | A Watchman, Pennsylvania Packet, 10 June 1776 |
| 16. | Virginia Declaration of Rights, 12 June 1776 |
| 17. | Edmund Randolph, History of Virginia 253, 1809 |
| 18. | Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Debates in Congress, 2--4 July 1776 |
| 19. | A Citizen of New Jersey, Pennsylvania Evening Post, 30 July 1776 |
| 20. | Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821 |
| 21. | Rejected Constitution for Massachusetts, 1778 |
| 22. | Return of Sutton, Massachusetts, 18 May 1778 |
| 23. | Thomas Jefferson to David Rittenhouse, 19 July 1778 |
| 24. | Alexander Hamilton to John Jay, 14 Mar. 1779 |
| 25. | Massachusetts Constitution, 1780 |
| 26. | Return of Northampton, Massachusetts, 22 May 1780 |
| 27. | Benjamin Franklin, Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, Sept. 1782 |
| 28. | Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Queries 14 AND 18, 137--43, 162--63, 1784 |
| 29. | Timothy Pickering to Rufus King, 6 Mar. 1785 |
| 30. | John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 25 Apr. 1785 |
| 31. | John Jay to Richard Price, 27 Sept. 1785 |
| 32. | Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 Oct. 1785 |
| 33. | James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June 1786 |
| 34. | John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787 |
| 35. | Records of the Federal Convention |
| 36. | Federal Farmer, no. 7, 31 Dec. 1787 |
| 37. | Luther Martin, Genuine Information, 1788 |
| 38. | Yeomanry of Massachusetts, 25 Jan. 1788 |
| 39. | John Jay to the President of the [English] Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, June 1788 |
| 40. | Alexander Hamilton to George Washington, 5 May 1789 |
| 41. | Edmund Randolph to James Madison, 19 May 1789 |
| 42. | Benjamin Franklin, Queries and Remarks respecting Alterations in the Constitution of Pennsylvania, 1789 |
| 43. | James Madison, Memorandum on an African Colony for Freed Slaves, 20 Oct. 1789 |
| 44. | Noah Webster, Miscellaneous Remarks on Divizions of Property . . . in the United States, Feb. 1790 |
| 45. | James Madison to Benjamin Rush, 20 Mar. 1790 |
| 46. | John Adams to Samuel Adams, 18 Oct. 1790 |
| 47. | A Freeman, Maryland Gazette, 30 Dec. 1790 |
| 48. | James Wilson, Of Man, as a Member of Society, Lectures on Law, 1791 |
| 49. | Thomas Jefferson, Notes of a Conversation with Alexander Hamilton, 13 Aug. 1791 |
| 50. | James Madison, Parties, 23 Jan. 1792 |
| 51. | Nathaniel Chipman, Sketches of the Principles of Government 177--82, 1793 |
| 52. | St. George Tucker to Jeremy Belknap, 24 Jan. 1795 |
| 53. | John Adams to Jeremy Belknap, 21 Mar. 1795 |
| 54. | St. George Tucker to Jeremy Belknap, 29 June 1795 |
| 55. | James Sullivan to Jeremy Belknap, 30 July 1795 |
| 56. | St. George Tucker, A Dissertation on Slavery, in Blackstone's Commentaries 2:App. 31--32, 35--43, 54--55, 68--69, 74--81 (1803), 1796 |
| 57. | John Adams to George Churchman and Jacob Lindley, 24 Jan. 1801 |
| 58. | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 9 July 1813 |
| 59. | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1813 |
| 60. | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 2 Sept. 1813 |
| 61. | Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 28 Oct. 1813 |
| 62. | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 Nov. 1813 |
| 63. | John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July 1814 |
| 64. | Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 6 Apr. 1816 |
| 65. | James Madison to Robert J. Evans, 15 June 1819 |
| 66. | Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, 22 Apr. 1820 |
| 67. | Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 12 June 1823 |
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