The Constitution of the United States of America and selected writings of the founding fathers.

The birth of a nation. On the Writs of Assistance ; On the Stamp Act / James Otis
On civil war / Benjamin Franklin
Constitutional liberty and arbitrary power / Joseph Warren
The rights of the colonists as men / Samuel Adams
Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one / Benjamin Franklin
A summary view of the rights of British America / Thomas Jefferson
The Boston massacre / John Hancock. From the Continental Congress: Address of the First Continental Congress to the inhabitants of the several Anglo-American colonies
Declaration of colonial rights
On the resolution to put the commonwealth into a state of defence / Patrick Henry
A declaration by the representatives of the united colonies of North America, setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms
Address to the people of England / Richard Henry Lee
To the King's Most Excellent Majesty
A speech to the Six Confederate Nations
Mohawks, Oneidas, Tuscaroras, Onandagas, Cayugas, Senekas
from the Twelve United Colonies
Benjamin Franklin's Articles of Confederation
Address to the Assembly of Jamaica
Address to the people of Ireland
The Declaration of Independence
American independence / Samuel Adams
Common sense / Thomas Paine
Thoughts on government / John Adams
from The American Crisis / Thomas Paine
An address to Congress, to the inhabitants of the United States of America
Information to those who would remove to America / Benjamin Franklin. A more perfect union. Articles of confederation and perpetual union
The continentalist / Alexander Hamilton
The Federalist papers / Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
From the Constitutional Conventions. Draft constitution: report of the Committee of Detail, August 6, 1787
Speech in the Constitutional Convention, at the conclusion of its deliberation / Benjamin Franklin
Impressions as to the new constitution / Alexander Hamilton
An examination into the leading principles of the federal constitution / Noah Webster
America's unique structure of freedom / Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Federal experiments in history / James Monroe
On the expediency of adopting the federal constitution / James Madison
The Bill of Rights / Patrick Henry
On the federal constitution / Alexander Hamilton
Amendments to the Constitution / James Madison
The Constitution of the United States of America
The Bill of Rights. Presidential addresses. First inaugural address ; Farewell address / George Washington
Inaugural address / John Adams
First inaugural address ; Second inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson
First inaugural address ; Second inaugural address / James Madison. Appendix. The Constitution of the United States of America (with annotations)
Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America

Collected here in one volume are the most important documents of the United States of America: The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation. These three documents are the basis for our entire way of life