| Introduction |
| 1. | William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 120--21, 1623 |
| 2. | James Harrington, Commonwealth of Oceana 70--72, 1656 |
| 3. | John Locke, Second Treatise, §§ 25--51, 123--26, 1689 |
| 4. | John Trenchard, Cato's Letters, no. 68, 3 Mar. 1721 |
| 5. | William Blackstone, Commentaries 1:134--35, 140--41, 1765 |
| 6. | House of Representatives of Massachusetts to Dennys De Berdt, 12 Jan. 1768 |
| 7. | Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, 22 Mar. 1775 |
| 8. | Gouverneur Morris, Political Enquiries, 1776 |
| 9. | Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821 |
| 10. | The Essex Result, 29 Apr. 1778 |
| 11. | Return of Sutton, Massachusetts, 18 May 1778 |
| 12. | Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris, 25 Dec. 1783 |
| 13. | Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 28 Oct. 1785 |
| 14. | Remonstrance and Petition of the Free Inhabitants of Lunenberg County, Virginia, 29 Nov. 1785 |
| 15. | John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787 |
| 16. | Records of the Federal Convention |
| 17. | Noah Webster, An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 10 Oct. 1787 |
| 18. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 10, 58--65, 22 Nov. 1787 |
| 19. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 70, 471--72, 15 Mar. 1788 |
| 20. | Melancton Smith, New York Ratifying Convention, 21 June 1788 |
| 21. | James Madison, Observations on Jefferson's Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, 15 Oct. 1788 |
| 22. | Benjamin Franklin, Queries and Remarks respecting Alterations in the Constitution of Pennsylvania, 1789 |
| 23. | James Madison, Property, 29 Mar. 1792 |
| 24. | Vanhorne's Lessee v. Dorrance |
| 25. | Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813 |
| 26. | James Madison, Note to His Speech on the Right of Suffrage, 1821 |
| 27. | James Madison, Note on Suffrage, 1829 |
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