6. Confederation and Constitution (1783-1789)
Allen, W. B., and Gordon Lloyd, eds. The Essential Antifederalist. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1985. (Writings by persons who opposed the ratification of the Federal Constitution of 1787.) NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: JK 155 .E84 1985
American State Papers [Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and the Constitution], The Federalist, On Liberty, Representative Government, Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill). (Great Books of the Western World, vol. 43.) Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1955. RGC: JK 154 1955
Bailyn, Bernard, ed. The Debate on the Constitution: The Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters during the Struggle over Ratification. (Library of America.) 2 vols. New York: Library of America, 1993. RVS: JK 155 .D33 1993
Bates, Elizabeth Bidwell, ed. The Making of the Constitution. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. (One portfolio [23 pieces, mostly documents]). RVS: JK 157 .B35
Fairfield, Roy, P., ed. The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Support of the Constitution of the United States, from the Original Text of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1961. PIN: JK 154 1961
Hamilton, Alexander. The Basic Ideas of Alexander Hamilton. Edited by Richard B. Morris. New York: Pocket Books, 1957 RVS: E 302 .H2 H2574 1957
Hyneman, Charles S., and Donald S. Lutz, eds. American Political Writing During the Founding Era, 1760-1805. 2 vols. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1983. RVS: JK 113 .A716 1983
Jefferson, Thomas. Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Edwin Morris Betts and James Adam Bear, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. (Letters from Jefferson to his fourteen children and grandchildren and from them to him. Focus is on family matters but include discussion of farm problems, the construction of the house and gardens at Monticello, etc. Detailed index reveals that slavery and slaves figure in several letters, as do American public affairs, the Burr conspiracy, European affairs, intellectual life, scientific interests, personal life, etc. Period covered: 1783-1826.) EVC: E 332.86 1986
Jefferson, Thomas. Writings. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1984. (Contents: Merrill D. Peterson wrote the notes and selected the texts.) RGC: E 302 .J442 1984
Jensen, Merrill, ed. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. 2 vols. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976- . (Vol. 1. Constitutional documents and records, 1776-1787. Vol. 2. Ratification of the Constitution by Pennsylvania. Other volumes in the series are in UT’s Law Library: Vol. 3, ratification of the Constitution by Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut; Vols. 8-10, ratification of the Constitution by Virginia; vols. 13-16, commentaries on the Constitution, public and private. There are also microfiche supple-ments containing peripheral documents such as newspaper items, pamphlets, letters, petitions, manuscripts, and other miscellaneous documents. The call number is LAW KF 4502 D63. The supplements on microfiche are in the Law Library Media Center Microfiche KF4502.D63 Suppl.) NRG, RGC: KF 4502 .D63 1976-
Kaminski, John P., and Richard Leffler, eds. Creating the Constitution: A History in Documents. Madison, Wis.: Center for the Study of the American Constitution, 1991. CYP: JK 11 .C73 1991
Kaminski, John P., and Richard Leffler, eds. Federalists and Antifederalists: The Debate over the Ratification of the Constitution. (Constitutional Heritage Series, Vol. 1.) Madison, Wisc.: Published for the Center of the Study of the American Constitution by Madison House, 1989. CYP, EVC, PIN: KF 4515 .F44 1989
Kaminski, John P. and Jill Adair McCaughan, eds. A Great and Good Man: George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1989. PIN: E 312.62 .G63 1989
Kaminski, John P., ed. A Necessary Evil: Slavery and the Debate over the Constitution. (Constitutional Heritage Series, Vol. 2.) Madison, Wis.: Published for the Center of the Study of the American Constitution by Madison House, 1995. (Documents cover a longer period of time than the title suggests: 1774-1807.) NRG: KF 4545 .S5 N43 1995
Kammen, Michael, G., ed. The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History. New York: Penguin, 1986. RGC, RVS: KF 4502 .O73 1986
Kenyon, Cecilia M., ed. The Antifederalists. (The American Heritage Series.) Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. (Excerpts from rare pamphlets, debates, and newspaper articles written in the 1780s by persons opposed to the adoption of the Federal Constitution.) NRG, RVS: JK 116 .K4
Ketcham, Ralph, ed. The Anti-Federalist Papers; and, the Constitutional Convention Debates. New York: New American Library, 1986. PIN: JK 155 .A57 1986. (Another copy, with Penguin Publishing Group shown as the publisher, is at RGC: JK 155 .A57 1986.)
Library of Congress. Legislative Reference Service. Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States. Edited by Charles C. Tansill. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927. RGC: JK 11 1927
Madison, James. Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787. New York: Norton, 1987. RGC: KF 4510 .U54 1987
Madison, James, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. The Federalist Papers. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Engl.: Penguin, 1987. CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS KF 4515 .F42 1987. Another copy in a different edition is at EVC JK 154 1947. Another copy in a different edition is at NRG JK 154 1960. Another copy in another edition is at NRG, RGC: JK 154 1961.
Morison, Sanuel Eliot, ed. Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal Constitution. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. RGC: E 203 .M86 1965
Paine, Thomas. The Thomas Paine Reader. Edited by Michael Foot and Isaac Kramnick. London, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1987. (Includes several writings relating to issues of state rights and national interests.) NRG, RGC, RVS: JC 177 .A3 1987
Pole, J. R., ed. The American Constitution-For and Against: The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1987. NRG, RGC, RVS: KF 4515 .A44 1987
St. John, Jeffrey. A Child of Fortune: A Correspondent’s Report on the Ratification of the U.S. Constitution and the Battle for a Bill of Rights. Ottowa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1990. (A hybrid source. Author writes in modern journalistic style. Contains many quotations and paraphrases from letters, diaries, debates, and from observations by contemporary historians.) RVS: KF 4541 .Z9 S7 1990
St. John, Jeffrey. Constitutional Journal: A Correspondent’s Report from the Convention of 1787. Ottawa, Ill.: James Books, 1987. (A hybrid source. Author writes in modern journalistic style. Contains many quotations and paraphrases from letters, diaries, debates, and from observations by contemporary historians.) RGC: JK 146 .S23 1987
Sandoz, Ellis, ed. Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1991. RGC: BR 115 .P7 P53 1991
Smith, Page. The Constitution: A Documentary and Narrative History. New York: Morrow, 1978. RVS: KF 4541 .S64 1978
Washington, George. George Washington: A Collection. Compiled and edited by W. B. Allen. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Classics, 1988. (Documents 94-166 deal with this time period..) RVS: E 312.72 1988
United States. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1979. NRG, RVS: JK 128 .U55 1979
United States. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Edited by Richard G. Stevens. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1984. EVC, CYP, PIN, RVS: KF 4502 .U54 1984
United States. National Park Service. Independence National Historical Park. 1787: The Day-to-Day Story of the Constitutional Convention. New York: Exeter Books, 1987. RVS: KF 4520 .S48 1987 1984