Founding America (Barnes & Noble Classics) - Jack N. Rakove [347]
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
Page 53-Declaration on Causes and Necessity of Taking Arms. Reprinted from: Ford, Worthington Chauncey, ed. Journals of the Continental Congress. Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905. Page 59-Franklin, Plan of Confederation. Reprinted from: Ford, Journals, vol. 2.
“REMEMBER THE LADIES”
Page 67-Adams, Abigail, Letter to John Adams. Reprinted from: Butterfield, L.H. et al., eds. Adams Family Correspondence. Vol. 1. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. Page 70-Adams, John, Letter to Abigail Adams. Reprinted from: Butterfield, Adams, vol. 1. Page 72-Adams, John, Letter to James Sullivan. Reprinted from: Adams, John. Papers of John Adams. Vol. 4. Edited by Robert J. Taylor et al. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977.
INVENTING A REPUBLIC
Page 79-Adams, John, Thoughts on Government. Reprinted from: Adams, Papers, vol. 4. Page 87-Resolutions of the Continental Congress (excerpt), May 10, 1776. Reprinted from: Ford, Worthington Chauncey, ed. Journals of the Continental Congress. Vol. 4. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906. Page 87-Resolutions of the Continental Congress (excerpt), May 15, 1776. Reprinted from: Ford, Journals, vol. 4. Page 88-Virginia Declaration of Rights. Reprinted from: Mason, George. The Papers of George Mason. Vol. 1. Edited by Robert A. Rutland. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970. Page 90-Virginia Constitution. Reprinted from: Jefferson, Thomas. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Julian P. Boyd et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950. Page 97-Pennsylvania Constitution. Reprinted from: Thorpe, Francis Newton, ed. The Federal and State Constitutions. Vol. 5. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909. Page 113-Concord Town Meeting Resolutions. Reprinted from: Handlin, Mary and Oscar Handlin, eds. The Popular Sources of Political Authority: Documents on the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1966.
INDEPENDENCE
Page 117-Jefferson, Notes of Proceedings in Congress, June 7-28, 1776. Reprinted from: Smith, Paul H. et al., eds. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. Vol. 4. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1979. Page 122-Jefferson, Notes of Proceedings in Congress, July 1-4, 1776. Reprinted from: Smith, Letters, vol. 4. Page 129-Dickinson, Notes for a Speech Opposing Independence. Reprinted from: Smith, Letters, vol. 4. Page 134-Adams, John, Letter to Abigail Adams. Reprinted from: Smith, Letters, vol. 4. Page 136-The Declaration of Independence. Reprinted from: Tansill, Charles C., ed. Documents lllustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1927.
DRAFTING THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
Page 145-Jefferson, Notes of Proceedings in Congress, July 12-August 1, 1776. Reprinted from: Smith, Letters, vol. 4. Page 154-Articles as Approved, August 20, 1776. Reprinted from: Ford, Worthington Chauncey, ed. Journals of the Continental Congress. Vol. 5. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1906. Page 160-Articles as Approved, November 15, 1777. Reprinted from: Ford, Worthington Chauncey, ed. Journals of the Continental Congress. Vol. 9. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907.
REFORMING THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
Page 173-Schuyler, Letter to Pierre Van Cortlandt and Evert Bancker. Reprinted from: Burnett, Edmund C., ed. Letters of Members of the Continental Congress. Vol. 5. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1931. Page 176-Hamiton, Letter to James Duane. Reprinted from: Hamilton, Alexander. The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. Vol. 2. Edited by Harold C. Syrett et al. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961. Page 194-Impost Amendment Proposed by Congress. Reprinted from: Ford, Worthington Chauncey, ed. Journals of the Continental