| Introduction |
| 1. | James McHenry, Anecdote 18-- |
| 2. | James Harrington, Commonwealth of Oceana 37--38, 103, 1656 |
| 3. | Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, Notes; bk. 3, CHS. 1--9; BK. 4, CHS. 4--5; BK. 5, CHS. 1--7; BK. 7, CHS. 1--2; BK. 8, CHS. 1--3, 1748 |
| 4. | Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, 22 Mar. 1775 |
| 5. | George Mason, Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company, Apr. 1775 |
| 6. | Samuel Adams to James Warren, 4 Nov. 1775 |
| 7. | John Adams to Mercy Warren, 8 Jan. 1776 |
| 8. | John Adams, Thoughts on Government, Apr. 1776 |
| 9. | John Adams to Mercy Warren, 16 Apr. 1776 |
| 10. | Carter Braxton, An Address to the Convention of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia; on the Subject of Government in General, and Recommending a Particular Form to Their Consideration, May 1776 |
| 11. | Thomas Jefferson, Preamble to a Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge, Fall 1778 |
| 12. | Richard Henry Lee to Henry Laurens, 6 June 1779 |
| 13. | Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 |
| 14. | Samuel Adams to John Scollay, 30 Dec. 1780 |
| 15. | Alexander Hamilton, Continentalist, no. 6, 4 July 1782 |
| 16. | Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Queries 14 AND 19, 146--49, 164--65, 1784 |
| 17. | John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States, 1787 |
| 18. | Noah Webster, An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, 10 Oct. 1787 |
| 19. | A Proposal for Reviving Christian Conviction, 11 Oct. 1787 |
| 20. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 10, 56--65, 22 Nov. 1787 |
| 21. | Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 20 Dec. 1787 |
| 22. | James Madison, Federalist, no. 55, 375--78, 13 Feb. 1788 |
| 23. | Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 9 June 1788 |
| 24. | James Madison, Virginia Ratifying Convention, 20 June 1788 |
| 25. | Alexander Hamilton, New York Ratifying Convention, 21 June 1788 |
| 26. | Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788 |
| 27. | John Adams to Samuel Adams, 18 Oct. 1790 |
| 28. | James Madison, Republican Distribution of Citizens, 5 Mar. 1792 |
| 29. | George Washington, Farewell Address, 19 Sept. 1796 |
| 30. | Benjamin Rush, Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic, 1798 |
| 31. | Gouverneur Morris, National Greatness, 1800 |
| 32. | Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 5 July 1814 |
| 33. | [Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, et al.,] Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Fix the Site of the University of Virginia, 4 Aug. 1818 |
| 34. | James Madison to Edward Livingston, 10 July 1822 |
| 35. | James Madison to W. T. Barry, 4 Aug. 1822 |
| 36. | James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 8 Feb. 1825 |
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