The Reading List for my independent reading course in U.S. Constitutional History:
- English declarations and bills of rights
- American declarations and bills of rights
- Sir Matthew Hale, The History of the Common Law in England
- Donald S. Lutz, Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History, Liberty Fund 1998
- Jack N. Rakove, Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents, 1998
- Jack P. Greene, Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788, 1986
- Forrest McDonald, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution, 1985
- Robert A. Rutland, Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776-1791, 1955
- Helen E. Veit, Kenneth R. Bowling, Charlene B. Bickford, eds., Creating the Bill of Rights: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress, 1991
- Michael A. Gillespie, Michael Lienesch, eds., Ratifying the Constitution, 1989