| Introduction |
| 1. | John Locke, Second Treatise, §§ 4--15, 54, 119--22, 163, 1689 |
| 2. | Thomas Gordon, Cato's Letters, no. 38, 22 July 1721 |
| 3. | Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, bk. 2, CH. 2, 1748 |
| 4. | David Hume, Of the Original Contract, 1752 |
| 5. | James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, 1764 |
| 6. | James Burgh, Political Disquisitions 1:3--4, 186--89, 190, 190--93, 201--2, 1774 |
| 7. | Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 26 Aug. 1776 |
| 8. | Instructions to the Delegates from Mecklenburg, North Carolina, to the Provincial Congress at Halifax, 1 Nov. 1776 |
| 9. | Statement of the Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Representatives, 17 Nov. 1778 |
| 10. | Thomas Jefferson, Preamble to a Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, Fall 1778 |
| 11. | Samuel Adams to Noah Webster, 30 Apr. 1784 |
| 12. | John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787 |
| 13. | Caesar, no. 2, 17 Oct. 1787 |
| 14. | James Wilson, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 4 Dec. 1787 |
| 15. | The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania to Their Constituents, 18 Dec. 1787 |
| 16. | Federal Farmer, no. 11, 10 Jan. 1788 |
| 17. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 39, 251, 16 Jan. 1788 |
| 18. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 46, 315, 29 Jan. 1788 |
| 19. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 49, 338--43, 2 Feb. 1788 |
| 20. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 63, 424--28, 1 Mar. 1788 |
| 21. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 71, 482--83, 18 Mar. 1788 |
| 22. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 78, 527--29, 28 May 1788 |
| 23. | Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 6 Sept. 1789 |
| 24. | James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 4 Feb. 1790 |
| 25. | James Wilson, Of Government, The Legislative Department, Of Citizens and Aliens, Lectures on Law, 1791 |
| 26. | James Madison, Public Opinion, 19 Dec. 1791 |
| 27. | Thomas Jefferson to Marquis de Lafayette, 14 Feb. 1815 |
| 28. | James Madison to Thomas Ritchie, 15 Sept. 1821 |
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