We The People: The Story of the United States Constitution
Last update: August 26, 2016 Benjamin Franklin
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 George Washington
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 James Madison
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 John Jay
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 Alexander Hamilton
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- Albany Plan of Union (1754)
- Articles of Association (October 20, 1774)
- Articles of Confderation (1777)
- Lee Resolution (1776) -- includes a plan for confederation
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Constitution of the United States
- Amendments to the Constitution
- Bill of Rights (Amendments 1 - 10)
- Amendments 11 - 27
- The Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation (July 2014 edition)
- Amendments to the Constitution
- Centuries of Citizenship: A Constitutional Timeline
- Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
- Interactive Constitution
- The Constitutional Convention
- Questions and Answers Pertaining to the Constitution
- Special Exhibits on the American Founding
- Which Founder Are You?
- British Bill of Rights (1689)
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John Locke
- Digital Locke Project, The
- John Locke's Writings
- Writings (via Online Library of Liberty)
- Magna Carta (1215)
- Spirit of Laws by Monesquieu
- Committee of Detail (a.k.a. Committee of Five):
created the original draft which included the Preamble, 23 Articles, and 57 Sections-
Edmund Randolph, Virginia
- Congressional Biography
- Aide-de-camp to Washington during the Revolutionary War
- At age 23, youngest delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention
- Mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia
- Virginia's Attorney General
- 7th Governor of Virginia, 1786 - 1788
- Presented the Virginia Plan to the Constitutional Convention
- 1st Attorney General of the United States, 1789 - 1794
- 2nd Secretary of State, August 1794 - August 1795
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James Wilson, Pennsylvania
- Congressional Biography
- Member of the Continental Congress
- Signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Prepared the first draft of the U.S. Constitution
- 1st Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 1789 - 1798
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John Rutledge, South Carolina (Committee Chair)
- Congressional Biography
- Chair of the Committee of Detail
- 2nd Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, August - December 1795
- Nathan Gorham, Massachusetts
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Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut
- Congressional Biography
- 3rd Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1796 - 1800
- Report of the Committee on Detail
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Edmund Randolph, Virginia
- Committee of Style:
revised the draft after it had been debated and wrote the Preamble -
Jacob Shallus, Engrosser of the Constitution of the United States
- The Man Behind the Quill: Jacob Shallus,
Calligrapher of the United States Constitution
by Arthur Plotnik, 1987 -
"Errors in the Constitution: Typographical and Congressional"
(Prologue, Fall 2012, v.44 no.2) - Constitution 225: To Errata is Human
- The Man Behind the Quill: Jacob Shallus,
- A More Perfect Union: The Creation of the U.S. Constitution
- Committee Assignments Chart and Commentary
- Creating the United States: Road to the Constitution
- Document Library: The Constitution
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 - 1789
- George Washington Papers
- James Madison Papers
- Journals of the Continental Congress (1774, 1775 - 1789)
- Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774 - 1789
- The American Constitution: A Documentary Records
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The Making of the U.S. Constitution: Transcription of the Introduction and
the U.S. Constitution from the First Volume of the Annals of Congress
(from v.1, Annals of Congress ) - The Plans
- Great Compromise, The (aka The Connecticut Compromise or The Sherman Compromise)
- Hamilton Plan, The
- New Jersey Plan, The
- Virginia Plan, The
- Thomas Jefferson Papers
- To Form A More Perfect Union
- Anti-Federalist Papers, The
- Elliot's Debates: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution
- Farrand's Records: The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787
- Federalist Papers, The
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A National Constitution: The Only Road to National Peace.: A Letter to the President of the United States by William Giles Dix
(from The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books) -
Congress Must Act Now or the Constitution is Wrecked
(from The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850 - 1920) - The Electoral College
- Abolish the Electoral College (New York Times, August 29, 2004)
- Electoral College (National Archives and Records Administration)
- Electoral College (Schoolhouse Rock)
- Flunking the Electoral College (New York Times, November 19, 2008)
- Pros and Cons of the Electoral College System
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The Electoral College: An Overview and Analysis of Reform Proposals (CRS Report RL30804, January 16, 2001)
- November 5, 2004 update (RL 30804)
- Times Topics: Electoral College (New York Times)
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The United States Constitution. Anti-Slavery Tracts no. 1
(From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909) - An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Printed Ephemera
- Can Abolitionsits Vote or Take Office Under the United States Constitution?
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The Constitution, Our Platform! McClellan, Our Choice!
(from America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets) -
The Prohibition Wave or We'll Change Our Constitution
(from America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets)