| Introduction |
| 1. | James Harrington, Commonwealth of Oceana 56--61, 1656 |
| 2. | Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, bk. 11, CH. 6, 1748 |
| 3. | John Adams, Notes on Debates in Congress, 5--6 Sept. 1774 |
| 4. | Democraticus, Loose Thoughts on Government, 7 June 1776 |
| 5. | Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Debates in Congress, 30 July 1 Aug. 1776 |
| 6. | William Hooper to the Congress of the State of North Carolina, 26 Oct. 1776 |
| 7. | One of the People, 23 Nov. 1776 |
| 8. | Benjamin Rush, Observations on the Government of Pennsylvania, 1777 |
| 9. | Pennsylvania Gazette, 26 March 1777 |
| 10. | The Essex Result, 29 Apr. 1778 |
| 11. | Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 13, 118--20, 1784 |
| 12. | Francis Hopkinson to John Jay, 11 Mar. 1786 |
| 13. | George Read to John Dickinson, 17 Jan. 1787 |
| 14. | John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787 |
| 15. | James Madison, Federal Convention, 19 June 1787 |
| 16. | George Mason, Federal Convention, 20 June 1787 |
| 17. | James Wilson, Federal Convention, 20 June 1787 |
| 18. | Records of the Federal Convention |
| 19. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 22, 138--41, 14 Dec. 1787 |
| 20. | Federal Farmer, no. 11, 10 Jan. 1788 |
| 21. | Republicus, 16 Feb. 1788 |
| 22. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 62, 416--19, 27 Feb. 1788 |
| 23. | Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 12 June 1788 |
| 24. | Alexander Hamilton, New York Ratifying Convention, 25 June 1788 |
| 25. | Benjamin Franklin, Queries and Remarks respecting Alterations in the Constitution of Pennsylvania, 1789 |
| 26. | James Wilson, Of Government, The Legislative Department, Lectures on Law, 1791 |
| 27. | Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2:§§ 547--58, 1833 |
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