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| Alphabetical Table of Contents | |
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| Alphabetical List of Authors | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Note on the Texts | |
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| Colonial Settlements and Societies | |
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| Virginia Articles, Laws, and Orders, 1610-11 | |
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| The Mayflower Compact, 1620 | |
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639 | |
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| The Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641 | |
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| Charter of Liberties and Frame of Government of the Province of Pennsylvania in America, 1682 | |
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| Dorchester Agreement, 1633 | |
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| Maryland Act for Swearing Allegiance, 1638; Plymouth Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity, 1625 | |
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| "Little Speech on Liberty," 1645 | |
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| "Copy of a Letter from Mr. Cotton to Lord Say and Seal," 1636 | |
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| Religious Society and Religious Liberty in Early America | |
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| "The Bloody Tenent, of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience," 1644 | |
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| "A Platform of Church Discipline," 1649 | |
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| Providence Agreement, 1637; Maryland Act for Church Liberties, 1638; Pennsylvania Act for Freedom of Conscience, 1682 | |
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| Worcestriensis, 1776 | |
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| "Thanksgiving Proclamation" and Letters to Religious Associations, 1789, 1790 | |
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| "Farewell Address," 1796 | |
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| "The Rights of Conscience Inalienable," 1791 | |
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| "Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association," 1802 | |
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| Defending the Charters | |
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| Magna Charta, 1215 | |
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| Petition of Right, 1628 | |
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| "An Account of the Late Revolution in New England" and "Boston Declaration of Grievances," 1689 | |
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| The English Bill of Rights, 1689 | |
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| The Stamp Act, 1765 | |
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| "Braintree Instructions," 1765 | |
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| Resolutions of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1765 | |
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| Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress, 1765 | |
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| "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved," 1763 | |
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| The Act Repealing the Stamp Act, 1766 | |
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| The Declaratory Act, 1766 | |
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| The War for Independence | |
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| "A Discourse at the Dedication of the Tree of Liberty," 1768 "A Son of Liberty" | |
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| "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania," Letters V and IX, 1767-68 | |
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| Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, 1774 | |
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| Virginia Bill of Rights, 1776 | |
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| "On Civil Liberty, Passive Obedience, and Nonresistance," 1775 | |
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| Common Sense, 1776 | |
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| The Declaration of Independence, 1776 | |
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| A New Constitution | |
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| "Thoughts on Government," 1776 | |
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| Articles of Confederation, 1778 | |
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| The Essex Result, 1778 | |
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| Northwest Ordinance, 1787 | |
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| Albany Plan of Union, 1754 | |
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| Virginia and New Jersey Plans, 1787 | |
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| The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787 | |
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| The Federalist, Papers 1, 9, 10, 39, 47-51, 78, 1787 | |
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| "Address of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention," 1787 | |
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| "An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution," 1787 | |
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| The Bill of Rights | |
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| The Federalist, Papers 84 and 85, 1787 | |
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| "Letter I," "Centinel," 1787 | |
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| "Essay I," "Brutus," 1787 | |
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| "Letter III," "the Federal Farmer," 1787 | |
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| "Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments," 1785 | |
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| "Virginia Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom," 1786 | |
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| "Speech Introducing Proposed Constitutional Amendments," 1789 | |
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| Debate over First Amendment Language, 1789 | |
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| The First Ten Amendments to the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights, 1789 | |
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| Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833 | |
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| The People v. Ruggles, 1811 | |
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| Marbury v. Madison, 1803 | |
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| Barron v. the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 1833 | |
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| State versus Federal Authority | |
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| "Essay V," "Brutus," 1787 | |
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| Chisholm v. Georgia, 1793 | |
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| U.S. Constitution, Eleventh Amendment, 1787 | |
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| The Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798 | |
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| Virginia Resolutions, 1798 | |
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| Kentucky Resolutions, 1798 | |
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| Counter-resolutions of Other States, 1799 | |
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| Report of Virginia House of Delegates, 1799 | |
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| "The Duty of Americans, at the Present Crisis," 1798 | |
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| Report of the Hartford Convention, 1815 | |
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| Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833 | |
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| A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States, 1840 | |
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| Forging a Nation | |
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| "Opinion against the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791 | |
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| "Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States," 1791 | |
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| "Veto Message," 1832 | |
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| "Veto Message," 1817 | |
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| Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833 | |
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| "Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois," 1838 | |
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| "Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin," 1859 | |
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| Newspaper Editorials on "Direct Taxation," 1834 | |
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| "Chief Justice Marshall," 1835 | |
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| "The Despotism of the Majority," 1837 | |
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| "Morals of Legislation," 1837 | |
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| "The Morals of Politics," 1837 | |
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| "Speech on Electioneering," 1848 | |
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| "Speech before the U.S. Senate," 1830 | |
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| "Speech before the U.S. Senate," 1830 | |
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| "Fort Hill Address," 1831 | |
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| Prelude to War | |
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| Laws Regulating Servants and Slaves, 1630-1852 | |
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| "Slavery" and "Agriculture and the Militia," 1818 | |
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| The Missouri Compromise, 1820-21 | |
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| Newspaper Editorials on "Governor McDuffie's Message," 1835 | |
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| "The Question of Slavery Narrowed to a Point," 1837 | |
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| "'Abolition Insolence,'" 1837 | |
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| Senate Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, 1850 | |
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| Second Fugitive Slave Law, 1850 | |
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| Ableman v. Booth, 1858 | |
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| Scott v. Sandford, 1856 | |
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| "The Relative Position and Treatment of the Negroes" and "The Abolitionists--Consistency of Their Labors," 1858 | |
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| "What Is Slavery?" and "Slavery Is Despotism," 1853 | |
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| Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1856 | |
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| Fifth Lincoln-Douglas Debate, 1858 | |
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| Bibliography | |