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Founding the Republic : a Documentary History /
Establishes a broad picture of the issues that confronted those who framed our government by showing how they arrived at consensus from their numerous conflicting positions. A chronology of major events is followed by seven sections of documents, organized topically. This important library and class...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. The decision for independence : reasons for and against separation from Britain, 1775-1776.
- Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms (July 6, 1775)
- Proclamation by the king for suppressing rebellion and sedition (August 23, 1775)
- Common sense (Thomas Paine, January 10, 1776)
- The true interest of America impartially stated (published anonymously by the Reverend Charles Inglis, March 1776)
- Resolution for independence (June 7, 1776)
- Notes on the debate in congress on independence (Thomas Jefferson, June 7-July 4, 1776)
- The Declaration of independence (July 4, 1776)
- Part II. Making constitutions for the new American states : debates on models of good government, 1776-1780. The people the best governors : or a plan of government founded on the just principles of natural freedom (published anonymously in New Hampshire, 1776)
- Thoughts on government: applicable to the present state of the American colonies (in a letter from a gentleman [John Adams] to his friend, April 1776)
- The Virginia declaration of rights (June 12, 1776)
- Preamble to the Pennsylvania constitution (August 1776)
- Pennsylvania declaration of rights (August 1776)
- The Essex result (Theophilus Parsons, Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1778)
- Preamble to the Massachusetts constitution (1780)
- The Massachusetts declaration of rights (1780).
- Part III. Problems of equality and liberty in the new American states, 1776-1792. Letter to John Adams (Abigail Adams, March 31, 1776)
- Letter to James Sullivan (John Adams, May 26, 1776)
- Petition against slavery to the General Court of Massachusetts (January 13, 1777)
- Quock Walker's case (1783)
- Memorial and remonstrance against religious assessments (James Madison, June 20, 1785)
- The Virginia statute for religious freedom (Thomas Jefferson, January 16, 1786)
- Letter from three Seneca leaders to President George Washington (1790)
- A sermon against slavery (the Reverend James Dana, September 9, 1791)
- Letter to Thomas Jefferson (Benjamin Banneker, August 19, 1791)
- Letters to Benjamin Banneker and to the Marquis de Condorcet (Thomas Jefferson, August 30, 1791)
- Part IV. The crisis of government under the Articles of confederation, 1781-1787. The Articles of confederation (1781)
- Circular letter to the state governors (George Washington, June 8, 1783)
- Letter to Samuel Adams (Richard Henry Lee, March 14, 1785)
- Letter to George Washington (John Jay, June 27, 1786)
- Letter to John Jay (George Washington, August 1, 1786)
- Proceedings of the state commissioners at Annapolis, Maryland (September 11-14, 1786)
- Letter to Edward Carrington (Thomas Jefferson, January 16, 1787)
- Letter to James Madison (Thomas Jefferson, January 30, 1787)
- Northwest ordinance (July 13, 1787).
- Part V. The Federal Convention and the Constitution, 1787. Letter to George Washington (James Madison, April 16, 1787)
- Virginia plan (Reported by James Madison, May 29, 1787)
- Debate on the Virginia plan (June 6, 1787)
- Report of the committee of the whole (June 13, 1787)
- New Jersey plan (June 15, 1787)
- Debate on the New Jersey and Virginia plans (June 16, 1787)
- Debate on slavery (August 21-22, 1787)
- Signing the Constitution and concluding the convention (September 17, 1787)
- The Constitution of the United States of America, signed by thirty-nine delegates to the Federal Convention (September 17, 1787)
- Part VI. Debate on the Constitution : Federalists versus Anti-Federalists, 1787-1788. Essay I (Brutus, October 18, 1787)
- The Federalist 1 (Publius [Alexander Hamilton], October 27, 1787)
- Letter to the General Court of Massachusetts (Elbridge Gerry, November 3, 1787)
- Objections to the Constitution (George Mason, November 22, 1787)
- The Federalist 10 (Publius [James Madison], November 22, 1787)
- Letter IV (Agrippa [James Winthrop], December 4, 1787)
- The Federalist 39 (Publius [James Madison], January 16, 1788)
- The Federalist 51 (Publius [James Madison], February 6, 1788)
- Essay XV (Brutus, March 20, 1788)
- The Federalist 78 (Publius [Alexander Hamilton], May 28, 1788).
- Part VII. The first federal Congress and the Bill of Rights, 1788-1792. Letter to James Madison (Thomas Jefferson, December 20, 1787)
- Amendments to the U.S. Constitution proposed by the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (February 6, 1788)
- Amendments to the U.S. Constitution proposed by the New York Ratifying Convention (July 26, 1788)
- Letter to Thomas Jefferson (James Madison, October 17, 1788)
- Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives (James Madison, June 8, 1789)
- Amendments passed by the U.S. Congress (September 25, 1789)
- The Bill of Rights, Amendments I-X to the U.S. Constitution (Ratified December 15, 1791 and Certified by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, in a Letter to the State Governors, March 1, 1792).