Volume 1

Publisher’s Note

Editor’s Introduction

Contributors

Full Table of Contents

Founding Era Constitutional Debates

Virginia Declaration of Rights

Letter on the Virginia Constitution

Articles of Confederation

Constitution of Massachusetts

Notes on the State of Virginia

Account of Shays’s Rebellion

A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America

Constitution of the United States

Letters of a Countryman

Federalist No. 10: “The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard against Domestic Faction and Insurrection”

Federalist Nos. 24 and 25: “The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense”

Federalist No. 35: “Concerning the General Power of Taxation”

Federalist No. 46: “The Influence of the State and Federal Governments Compared”

Federalist No. 51: “The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances between the Different Departments”

Federalist No. 70: “The Executive Department Further Considered”

Federalist No. 78: “The Judiciary Department”

Patrick Henry Speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention

George Nicholas Speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention

Federalist No. 84: “Certain...Objections to the Constitution Considered and Answered”

Presidential Oath and Inauguration

George Washington’s First Inaugural Address

The Bill of Rights

First Draft of First Amendment Rights

House of Representatives Debate on the Second Amendment

An Account of the Supremest Court of Judicature in Pennsylvania, viz., the Court of the Press

The Bill of Rights

Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Constitutional Questions in the New Nation

Alexander Hamilton: “Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States”

Thomas Jefferson: “Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank”

Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address

Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists

Marbury v. Madison

The Dangers of American Liberty

Fletcher v. Peck

Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee

McCulloch v. Maryland

Commerce, Labor, and Government Authority

Gibbons v. Ogden

Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge

Slaughter-House Cases

Lochner v. New York

Muller v. Oregon

Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Hammer v. Dagenhart

Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.

United States v. Darby Lumber Co.

Wickard v. Filburn

United States v. Lopez

National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius

Volume 2

Federalism and the Separation of Powers

Prigg v. Pennsylvania

Texas v. White

The Insular Cases: Downes v. Bidwell

Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States

United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

United States v. Nixon

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha

Morrison v. Olson

Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency

Arizona v. the United States

New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn, Inc. v. Bruen

West Virginia v. EPA

Presidential Records Act and Trump Warrant Receipt

Citizens, Government, and Society

Habeas Corpus Suspension Act

United States v. Cruikshank

Gitlow v. New York

Everson v. Board of Education

Dennis v. United States

Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC

City of Boerne v. Flores

Excerpts from Obergefell v. Hodges

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization

Voting, Elections, and Power

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution

Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Guinn v. United States

Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Twenty-Second Amendment

Baker v. Carr

Reynolds v. Sims

Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Buckley v. Valeo

Shaw v. Reno

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

Shelby County v. Holder

Cooper v. Harris

Rucho v. Common Cause

Appendixes

Chronological List

Web Resources

Bibliography