U.S. Constitution
National Archives and Records Administration: Constitution of the United States

Secondary Sources

Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (available in CSCC library)

Bernard Bailyn, To begin the world anew: the genius and ambiguities of the American founders (available in CSCC library)

Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle at Philadelphia (available in CSCC library)
Richard Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton: American

Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (available in CSCC library)

Christopher Collier & James Collier, Decision in Philadelphia
David Epstein, The Political Theory of the Federalist

John E. Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (available in CSCC library)

Michael Kammen, The Machine that Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture (available in CSCC library)

Donald Lutz, “The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought” 78 American Political Science Review 189-97 (1984)

Donald Lutz, Origins of American Constitutionalism
Richard B. Morris, The Framing of the Federal Constitution (available in CSCC library)

Forrest McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: a biography (available in CSCC library)

Forrest McDonald, Novus Ordo Seclorum
Leonard W. Levy, Essays on the Making of the Constitution

Garry Wills, Explaining America: The Federalist
Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic (available in CSCC library)