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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Part I: Revolution and Independence
Document 1. Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress, October 19, 1765
Document 2. Soame Jenyns, The Objections to the Taxation…consider’d, 1765
Document 3. Daniel Dulany, Considerations, October, 1765
Document 4. William Pitt, Speech on the Stamp Act, January 14, 1766
Document 5. John Dickinson, Letters II and IV from Letters from a Farmer, 1767–8
Document 6. First Continental Congress, Declaration and Resolves, October 14, 1774
Document 7. Daniel Leonard, Massachusettensis, January 9, 1775
Document 8. John Adams, Novanglus, February 6, 1775
Document 9. Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775
Document 10. Adam Smith, The Cost of Empire, 1776
Document 11. Second Continental Congress, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms, July 6, 1775
Document 12. Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
Document 13. Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, 1776
Document 14. The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
Part II: The Constitution
Document 1. Massachusetts Delegates in Congress, Letter on a Constitutional Convention, September 3, 1785
Document 2. John Jay and George Washington on the Crisis of the 1780’s, June 27 and August 1, 1786
Document 3. Debate in the Federal Convention, June 9 and 11, 1787
Document 4. The Constitution of the United States
Document 5. Elbridge Gerry, Letter to President of Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives of Massachusetts, October 18, 1787
Document 6. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison on the Constitution, December 20, 1787
Document 7. Debate in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4 and 5, 1788
Document 8. James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, Numbers 10 and 15, 1787
Part III: Federalists and Republicans
Document 1. Alexander Hamilton, Report on the Public Credit, January 9, 1790
Document 2. Virginia Resolutions on the Assumption of State Debts, December 16, 1790
Document 3. Thomas Jefferson, Recollections of the Hamiltonian System, February 4, 1818
Document 4. Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank, February 15, 1791
Document 5. Alexander Hamilton, Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank, February 23, 1791
Document 6. Thomas Jefferson, The Importance of Agriculture, 1784
Document 7. Alexander Hamilton, Report on the Subject of Manufactures, December 5, 1791
Document 8. Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, 1798
Document 9. The Legislature of Rhode Island on the Virginia Resolutions, February 1799
Document 10. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
Document 11. Marbury v. Madison, 1803
Document 12. Thomas Jefferson on the Supreme Court, September 6, 1819
Part IV: Republican Diplomacy
Document 1. Robert R. Livingston, Examination of the Treaty…Between the United States and Great Britain, 1795
Document 2. Alexander Hamilton, Camillus, Numbers I and II, 1795
Document 3. George Washington, Farewell Address, September 17, 1796
Document 4. Thomas Jefferson to Robert R. Livingston, April 18, 1802
Document 5. Letters of Timothy Pickering, January 29, March 4, 1804, and January 8, 1809
Document 6. Debate in the House of Representatives, December 1811
Document 7. James Madison, War Message to Congress, June 1, 1812
Document 8. Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention, January 4, 1815
Document 9. John Quincy Adams, Diary, November 7, 1823
Document 10. James Monroe, Message to Congress, December 2, 1823
Part V: The Jacksonian Era
Document 1. Debate in the New York Constitutional Convention, 1821
Document 2. John Quincy Adams, First Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1825
Document 3. Andrew Jackson, Veto of Maysville Road Bill, May 27, 1830
Document 4. Henry Clay, Speech on the Maysville Road Veto, August 3, 1830
Document 5. Henry Clay, Speech on the Tariff, March 31, 1824
Document 6. The South Carolina Protest against the Tariff of 1828, December 19, 1828
Document 7. John C. Calhoun, Fort Hill Address, July 26, 1831
Document 8. Andrew Jackson, Proclamation to the People of South Carolina, December 10, 1832
Document 9. Resolutions of South Carolina on Jackson’s Nullification Proclamation, December 20, 1832
Document 10. Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto Message, July 10, 1832
Document 11. Daniel Webster, Speech on Jackson’s Veto of the United States Bank Bill, July 11, 1832
Document 12. Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 1837
Document 13. Joseph Story, Dissenting Opinion in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 1837
Part VI: Slavery and Expansion
Document 1. Thomas R. Dew, Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832, 1832
Document 2. William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, January 1, 1831
Document 3. Theodore Dwight Weld, Slavery As It Is, 1839
Document 4. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852
Document 5. William J. Grayson, “The Hireling and the Slave,” 1854
Document 6. Henry Clay, Raleigh Letter, April 17, 1844
Document 7. James K. Polk, War Message to Congress, May 11, 1846
Document 8. Massachusetts Legislature, Resolutions on the War with Mexico, 1847
Document 9. Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, Debate on the Compromise of 1850, February 5–March 7, 1850
Document 10. Appeal of the Independent Democrats, January 19, 1854
Document 11. Stephen A. Douglas, Speech in the Senate, January 30, 1854
Document 12. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857
Document 13. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
Part VII: Secession, Civil War, and Emancipation
Document 1. South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession, December 24, 1860
Document 2. Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
Document 3. Jefferson Davis, Message to the Confederate Congress, April 29, 1861
Document 4. Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress, July 4, 1861
Document 5. Horace Greeley and Abraham Lincoln on Emancipation, August 19 and 22, 1862
Document 6. Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
Document 7. Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
Document 8. Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
Note on Sources
A Note About the Author
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