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Defining Documents in American History: The Constitution

Table of Contents

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