The Constitution and the Nation: Establishing

The United States Constitution records the structure of America's public life and society, distributing power and outlining citizens' rights and privileges. Historians Christopher Waldrep and Lynne Curry's compilation of leading interpretive documents traces English and American constitutional thinking from its earliest roots in 1215, to the U.S. Supreme Court under the great chief justice John Marshall. These documents reveal the constitution as an idea, growing and evolving but always reflecting particular moments in history. This book records the drama of the young American nation searching for its identity.

Christopher Waldrep is Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University Lynne Curry is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University

Introduction

1

(2)

The Creation of American Constitutionalism

3

(28)

Magna Carta (1215)

6

(4)

Declaration of Rights (1689)

10

(2)

Second Treatise of Government (1690)

12

(4)

John Locke

Cato's Letters (1720--1723)

16

(10)

Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

26

(2)

William Blackstone

The Wealth of Nations (1776)

28

(1)

Adam Smith

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

29

(2)

Mary Wollstonecraft

The North American Colonies

31

(18)

Lawes, Divine, Morall, and Martiall for the Colony of Virginia (1612)

32

(2)

Mayflower Compact (1620)

34

(1)

Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company (1629)

35

(2)

Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men; Witchcrafts, Infallible Proofs of Guilt in such as are Accused with that Crime (1693) by Increase Mather

37

(3)

Slave Statutes (1669 and 1680)

40

(2)

A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger, Printer of the New-York Weekly Journal (1735)

42

(3)

Blackstone on Married Women's Status (1765)

45

(4)

The American Revolution

49

(16)

Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions (1765)

50

(1)

Parliamentary Debate on Taxation (1766)

51

(1)

Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies (1768)

52

(4)

John Dickinson

Common Sense (1776)

56

(4)

Thomas Paine

Declaration of Independence (1776)

60

(5)

Writing the American Constitution

65

(65)

State Constitutions (1776)

67

(3)

The Articles of Confederation (1777)

70

(10)

Vices of the Political System of the U. States (1787)

80

(4)

James Madison

The Constitutional Convention (1787)

84

(10)

The United States Constitution (1787)

94

(14)

The Federalist Papers (1787--1788)

108

(12)

Essay on the Constitution (1787) ``Brutus''

120

(7)

The Bill of Rights (1791)

127

(3)

The Early American Republic

130

(29)

Federal Judiciary Act (1789)

132

(4)

Jefferson and Hamilton Debate the Bank of the United States (1791)

136

(6)

Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)

142

(3)

Eleventh Amendment (1798)

145

(1)

Congressional Debate on the Sedition Act & the Sedition Act (1798)

146

(4)

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798--1799)

150

(9)

The Marshall Court

159

(24)

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

161

(2)

Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

163

(4)

Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)

167

(4)

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

171

(6)

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

177

(6)

APPENDIX

183

(26)

Constitution of the United States

183

(26)

Glossary

209

(4)

Index

213

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The Constitution and the Nation: Establishing the Constitution, 1215-1829

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