| Introduction |
| 1. | Mayflower Compact, 11 Nov. 1620 |
| 2. | Ordinance and Constitution for Council and Assembly in Virginia, 24 July 1621 |
| 3. | Royal Commission for Regulating Plantations, 28 Apr. 1634 |
| 4. | William Penn, Preface to the Frame of Government, 1682 |
| 5. | John Locke, Second Treatise, §§ 89--94, 134--42, 212, 1689 |
| 6. | John Trenchard, Cato's Letters, no. 60, 6 Jan. 1721 |
| 7. | John Trenchard, Cato's Letters, no. 61, 13 Jan. 1721 |
| 8. | John Trenchard, Cato's Letters, no. 62, 20 Jan. 1721 |
| 9. | Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, bk. 6, CH. 2; BK. 11, CHS. 1--7, 20, 1748 |
| 10. | Richard Henry Lee to ------, 31 May 1764 |
| 11. | Resolutions of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 29 Oct. 1765 |
| 12. | John Adams, Clarendon, no. 3, 27 Jan. 1766 |
| 13. | Massachusetts House of Representatives, Circular Letter to the Colonial Legislatures, 11 Feb. 1768 |
| 14. | Fairfax County Resolves, 18 July 1774 |
| 15. | James Burgh, Political Disquisitions 1:221--23, 226--27, 1774 |
| 16. | Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 23 Feb. 1775 |
| 17. | Pittsfield Petitions, 29 May 1776 |
| 18. | Concord Town Meeting Resolutions, 21 Oct. 1776 |
| 19. | Four Letters on Interesting Subjects 18--24, 1776 |
| 20. | Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 13, 121--29, 1784 |
| 21. | Alexander Hamilton, A Second Letter from Phocion, Apr. 1784 |
| 22. | James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 24 Oct. 1787 |
| 23. | Impartial Examiner, no. 1, 20 Feb. 1788 |
| 24. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 78, 524--25, 28 May 1788 |
| 25. | James Madison, Observations on Jefferson's Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, 15 Oct. 1788 |
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