“Morals of Politics, The,” WILLIAM LEGGETT
New Jersey Plan
North Carolina Law against Entertaining Runaways
Northwest Ordinance
“On Civil Liberty, Passive Obedience, and Non-resistance,” JONATHAN BOUCHER
“Opinion against the Constitutionality of a National Bank,” THOMAS JEFFERSON
“Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States,” ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Pennsylvania Act for Freedom of Conscience
People v. Ruggles, The, JAMES KENT
Petition of Right
“Platform of Church Discipline, A”
Plymouth Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity
Providence Agreement
“Question of Slavery Narrowed to a Point, The,” WILLIAM LEGGETT
“Relative Position and Treatment of the Negroes, The,” GEORGE S. SAWYER
Report of the Hartford Convention
Report of Virginia House of Delegates
Resolutions of the Virginia House of Burgesses
Responses to the Virginia Resolutions, Kentucky, 1798; All Others, 1799
“Rights of Conscience Inalienable, The,” JOHN LELAND
“Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, The,” JAMES OTIS
Scott v. Sandford, ROGER TANEY
Second Fugitive Slave Law, 1850
Sedition Act
Senate Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, JOHN C. CALHOUN and DANIEL WEBSTER
“Slavery,” JOHN TAYLOR OF CAROLINE
“Slavery Is Despotism,” HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
“Speech before the U.S. Senate,” DANIEL WEBSTER
“Speech before the U.S. Senate,” ROBERT Y. HAYNE
“Speech Introducing Proposed Constitutional Amendments,” JAMES MADISON
“Speech on Electioneering,” DAVY CROCKETT
“Speech on the Slavery Question,” JOHN C. CALHOUN
Stamp Act, The
“Thanksgiving Proclamation,” GEORGE WASHINGTON
“Thoughts on Government,” JOHN ADAMS
U.S. Constitution, Eleventh Amendment
“Veto Message,” ANDREW JACKSON
“Veto Message,” JAMES MADISON
Virginia and New Jersey Plans
Virginia Articles, Laws, and Orders
“Virginia Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom,” THOMAS JEFFERSON
Virginia Bill of Rights
Virginia Plan
Virginia Resolutions
“What Is Slavery?” HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Worcestriensis, Number IV
Adams, John
Boucher, Jonathan
“Brutus” [Robert Yates?]
Bryan, Robert
Byfield, Nathanael
Calhoun, John C.
“Centinel” [Samuel Bryan?]
Cotton, John
Crockett, Davy
Dickinson, John
Dwight, Timothy
“Federal Farmer, The” [Melancton Smith]
Hamilton, Alexander
Hayne, Robert Y.
Jackson, Andrew
Jay, John
Jefferson, Thomas
Kent, James
Leggett, William
Leland, John
Lincoln, Abraham
Madison, James
Marshall, John
Mather, Richard
Otis, James
Paine, Thomas
Partridge, Ralph
Sawyer, George S.
“Son of Liberty, A” [Silas Downer]
Story, Joseph
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Taney, Roger
Taylor, John, of Caroline
Washington, George
Webster, Daniel
Webster, Noah
Williams, John
Williams, Roger
Wilson, James
Winthrop, John
In the latter decades of the twentieth century scholars working in various subfields of American history brought a great deal of formerly neglected material to light. This material concerns issues ranging from the role of religious arguments and leaders in public life, to the breadth of historical understanding characterizing public debate, to the specifically British memories and sensibilities of Americans, to the importance of early constitutional documents and Americans’ constitutional sophistication. In each of these areas the new material
