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Suggested Reading

BEARD, CHARLES A. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. New York: Macmillan, 1913.

_____. The Republic: Conversations on Fundamentals. New York: Viking Press, 1943.

BOWEN, CATHERINE D. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787. Boston: Little, Brown, 1966.

BURNETT, EDMUND C. The Continental Congress. New York: Macmillan, 1941.

FARRAND, MAX. The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921.

_____ . The Framing of the Constitution of the United States. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1913.

_____. ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. 3 vols., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911; rev. ed., 4 vols., 1937.

HAMILTON ALEXANDER, JOHN JAY, and JAMES MADISON. The Federalist [Papers]: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution, As Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. [1788]. Available in many complete and abridged editions, including paperback.

JENSEN, MERRILL. The Articles of Confederation: An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution, 1774-1781. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1940.

______. The New Nation: A History of the United States During the Confederation, 1781-1789. New York: Knopf, 1950.

McDONALD, FORREST. We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.

McGEE, DOROTHY H. Framers of the Constitution. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968.

MAIN, JACKSON TURNER. The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788. Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, at Williamsburg, Va. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.

MORGAN, EDMUND S. The Birth of the Republic, 1763-1789. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES. The Formation of the Union. Washington: National Archives and Records Service (Pub. No. 70—13), 1970.

NEVINS, ALLAN. The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775-1789. New York: Macmillan, 1927.

ROSSITER, CLINTON. 1787: The Grand Convention. New York: Macmillan, 1966.

RUTLAND, ROBERT A. The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776-1791. Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955.

TANSILL, CHARLES., ed. Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States. 69th Congress, 1st Session, House Doc. No. 398. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927.

UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION SESQUICENTENNIAL COMMISSION. History of the Formation of the Union Under the Constitution. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1940.

UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Constitution of the United States, As Amended Through July 1971. 93d Congress, 2d Session, House Doc. No. 93-215. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1974.

UNITED STATES SENATE. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation—Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 29, 1972. 92d Congress, 2d Session, Senate Doc. No. 92-82. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1973.

VAN DOREN, CARL. The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States. New York: Viking Press, 1948.

WARREN, CHARLES. The Making of the Constitution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1928.

WHITNEY, DAVID C. Founders of Freedom in America: Lives of the Men Who Signed the Constitution and So Helped to Establish the United States of America. Chicago: J. G. Ferguson, 1965.

WOOD, GORDON S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.