| Introduction |
| 1. | Albany Plan of Union, 10 July 1754 |
| 2. | Benjamin Franklin, Reasons and Motives for the Albany Plan of Union, July 1754 |
| 3. | Joseph Galloway, Plan of Union, 28 Sept. 1774 |
| 4. | Continental Congress, Letter Transmitting Proposed Articles of Confederation, 17 Nov. 1777 |
| 5. | George Washington, Circular to the States, 8 June 1783 |
| 6. | George Washington to Rev. William Gordon, 8 July 1783 |
| 7. | Benjamin Rush to Richard Price, 27 Oct. 1786 |
| 8. | Records of the Federal Convention |
| 9. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 1, 7, 27 Oct. 1787 |
| 10. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 6, 28--36, 14 Nov. 1787 |
| 11. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 7, 36--43, 17 Nov. 1787 |
| 12. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 10, 56--65, 22 Nov. 1787 |
| 13. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 11, 65--73, 24 Nov. 1787 |
| 14. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 12, 73--74, 27 Nov. 1787 |
| 15. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 14, 88--89, 30 Nov. 1787 |
| 16. | A [Massachusetts] Federalist, 3 Dec. 1787 |
| 17. | James Wilson, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 11 Dec. 1787 |
| 18. | Centinel, no. 11, 12 Jan. 1788 |
| 19. | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, South Carolina House of Representatives, 18 Jan. 1788 |
| 20. | A Freeman to the Minority of the Convention of Pennsylvania, no. 1, 23 Jan. 1788 |
| 21. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 51, 347--53, 6 Feb. 1788 |
| 22. | John Jay, An Address to the People of the State of New York, Spring 1788 |
| 23. | Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, Dec. 1791 |
| 24. | Timothy Pickering to George Cabot, 29 Jan. 1804 |
| 25. | John Quincy Adams to William Plumer, 16 Aug. 1809 |
| 26. | William Pinkney, Argument in McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819 |
| 27. | James Madison, Outline, Sept. 1829 |
| 28. | James Madison to Nicholas P. Trist, 15 Feb. 1830 |
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