To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for
limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
respective Writings and Discoveries;
| 1. | An Act for Preventing the Frequent Abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and Unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating Printing and Printing Presses 14 Chas. 2, c. 33 (1662) |
| 2. | An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Author's or Purchasers of Such Copies 8 Anne, c. 19 (1709) |
| 3. | William Blackstone, Commentaries 2:406, 1766 |
| 4. | Massachusetts Constitution of 1780, CH. 5, SEC. 2 |
| 5. | James Madison, Act Securing Copyright for Authors, Virginia House of Delegates, 16 Nov. 1785 |
| 6. | Records of the Federal Convention |
| 7. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 43, 288, 23 Jan. 1788 |
| 8. | James Rumsey to Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1789 |
| 9. | Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, 5 Dec. 1791 |
| 10. | Levi Lincoln, Patents for Inventions, 26 May 1802 |
| 11. | St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 265--67, 1803 |
| 12. | Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 13 Aug. 1813 |
| 13. | William Rawle, A View of the Constitution of the United States 104--6 1829 (2d ed.) |
| 14. | Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1147--50, 1833 |
| 15. | Wheaton v. Peters |
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