The Constitution: Counter Revolution or National Salvation? Resources

Links to Resources on Issues

• Issue 1: Legality of the Constitution
• Issue 2: Regulation of Interstate and International Commerce
• Issue 3: National Debt and Treasury Obligations
• Issue 4: State vs. National Power
• Issue 5: National Integrity

American Memory

• An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation, 1774-1873
• Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
• George Washington Papers, 1741-1799

Print Sources

• Bowen, Catherine Drinker.  Miracle at Philadelphia;  The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787.   Boston:   Little, Brown and Company, 1966.
• Boyer, Paul S.   The Enduring Vision.   4th edition.   Boston:   Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• Collier, Christopher and James Lincoln Collier.   Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787   New York:  Random House, 1986.
• St. John, Jeffrey.   Constitutional Journal;  A Correspondent's Report from the Convention of 1787.   Ottawa, Ill.:   Janeson Books, Inc., 1987.
• Van Doren, Carl.  The Great Rehearsal; The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States.  New York:  Penguin Books, 1976.