U.S. Constitution and Founding Documents 101

Suggested Reading - Toward the Framers and Beyond

 

Confederation and Constitution 1781-1789 compiled and edited by Forest and Ellen McDonald,  Original Meanings  by Jack Rakove,  The United States Constitution by James Beck (1921-1925 ed.),  The Summer of 1787 by David O. Stewart,  Ratification by Pauline Maier,  Ratification Debates in the Several States ( See Virginia vol. 3),  Yale Avalon Law Library: Eliot’s Debates,  Anti Federalist Papers and Constitutional Debates by Ralph Ketcham 

 

The Federalist Papers by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison, Empire of Liberty by Gordon S. Wood 

James Madison and the Republican Legacy by Drew McCoy,  The Law by Bastiat,   Economics in one Lesson by Henry Hazlitt   Restoring the American Dream by Robert Ringer.   The Yale Law School, Lillian Goldman Law Library, The Avalon Project, provides access to centuries of historical documents of our English heritage and of early American History.