《Sources and Documents Illustrating The American Revolution 1764-1788 and The Formation of The Federa》

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From the Royal Proclamation on North America，7 October 17631

From James Otis＇s Rights of the British Colonies，17644

A Remonstrance from the Pennsylvania Frontier，17649

The Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act，30 May 176514

1．Patrick Henry＇s Speech，from different sources14

2．The Resolves17

Soame Jenyns＇s Objections to the Taxation of our American Colonies by the Legislature of Great Britain，briefly consider＇d，176518

From Daniel Dulany＇s Considerations on the Propriety of imposing Taxes in the British Colonies．．．by Act of Parliament，176524

Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress，19 October 176532

From Dickinson＇s Farmer＇s Letters，1767-834

Indian Diplomacy．From the Proceedings of a Congress of the Six Nations．．．before Sir William Johnson，March 176854

From the Report of the Board of Trade and Plantations on the Western Problem．7 March 176862

The Acts of Trade and Navigation．Instructions by the Commissioners of the Customs in America，February 176974

The Regulator Movement in North Carolina．Petition of a Frontier County．176983

Proceedings of the Town of Boston，October-November 177287

Additional Instructions to the Colonial Governors，177497

The Massachusetts Government Act，20 May 1774100

From the Quebec Act，22 June 1774103

From James Wilson＇s Considerations on the Authority of Parliament，August 1774104

Joseph Galloway＇s Plan of Union，28 September 1774116

Declaration and Resolves of the Continental Congress，1774118

The Association．20 October 1774122

From John Adams＇s Novanglus，No．Ⅶ．January 1775125

Franklin on the Galloway Plan and North Resolution，1775137

Letters of Joseph Warren to Arthur Lee，1775139

Declaration of Causes of Taking up Arms．6 July 1775141

Approaching Independence146

(a)John Adams to James Warren，22 April 1776146

(b)Congress recommends the formation of State Governments．10-15 May 1776148

Virginia Bill of Rights，12 June 1776149

Constitution of Virginia，29 June 1776151

Declaration of Independence，4 July 1776157

Constitution of Pennsylvania，28 September 1776162

Concord Town Meeting demands a Constitutional Convention，21 October 1776176

Articles of Confederation，1777(1781)178

Royal Instructions to the Peace Commission of 1778186

Resolution of Congress on Public Lands and New States，10 October 1780203

Ordinance of Congress on Public Lands，20 May 1785204

Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty，October 1785206

The Background of Shays＇s Rebellion，1786208

(a)Petition from the Town of Greenwich，Mass208

(b)Petition of a County Convention210

Letters on the Internal Situation，1786-7214

(a)John Jay to Washington，27 June 1786214

(b)Washington to John Jay，1 August 1786215

(c)Washington to Henry Lee，31 October 1786217

(d)The French charge d＇affaires at New York to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs，September-October 1786219

Northwest Ordinance，13 July 1787226

Selections from Debates in the Federal Convention，May-September 1787233

(a)The Randolph or Virginia Resolutions，29 May(Madison)233

(b)Democracy and the Lower House，31 May(Madison)238

(c)Monarchy and the Executive，1 June(Madison)241

(d)Safety and the Senate，7 June(Madison)244

(e)The New Jersey Plan．Small States v．Large States，16 June(Madison)250

(f)Alexander Hamilton＇s Ideas，18 June(Yates)254

(g)Corruption and Government，22 June(Yates)261

(h)Senators＇Term of Office，26 June(Yates)262

(i)Sectional Interests and the Federal Ratio，11 July(Madison)266

(j)Qualifications for Suffrage，7 August(Madison)274

(k)Foreigners and the Senate，9 August(Madison)279

(l)Slave Trade and Navigation Acts，22-29 August(Madison)282

Constitution of the Untied States，17 September 1787292

Gouverneur Morris to Washington，30 October 1787305

Selections from Debates in the Virginia Ratifying Convention，June 1788307

(a)The General Issue，4-6 June307

(b)John Marshall on the Judiciary，20 June340

(c)Personalities，23 June347

(d)Previous v．Subsequent Amendments，24-27 June352

APPENDIX363

Amendments to the Federal Constitution，1791-1920363

Index371