Bill of Rights: Suggestions for Further Reading
Banning, Lance. Jefferson and Madison. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1995.
Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765.
Bloom, Sol. History of the Formation of the Union Under the Constitution. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1943.
Cogan, Neil H., editor. The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Commager, Henry Steele, editor. Documents of American History. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968.
Conley, Patrick T, and John P. Kaminski, editors. The Bill of Rights and the States: The Colonial and Revolutionary origins of American Liberties. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1992.
Davis, G. R. C. Magna Carta. London: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1963.
Deane, Charles, editor. History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford. Boston: Privately Printed, 1856.
Ferling, John. A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Gales, Joseph, Sr., editor. Annals of Congress. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1834.
Handlin, Oscar, and Mary Handlin, editors. The Popular Sources of Political Authority: Documents on the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1966.
Hening, W. W. Statutes at Large. Richmond: George Cochran, 1823.
Hunt, Gaillard, editor. The Writings of James Madison. New York: G.P. Putman’s Sons, 1900–1910.
Hutchinson, et. al., editors. The Papers of James Madison. 19 volumes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
Jennings, Sir Ivan. Magna Carta and Its Influence in the World Today. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery, 1965.
Katz, Stanley N., editor. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Kukla, Jon, editor. The Bill of Rights: A Lively Heritage. Richmond: Virginia State Library and Archives, 1987.
Kurland, Philip B., and Ralph Lerner, editors. The Founders’ Constitution. Five Volumes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Labunski, Richard. James Madison and the Struggle for the Bill of Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Lloyd, Gordon, and Margie Lloyd, editors. The Essential Bill of Rights. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1998.
Maier, Pauline. American Scripture: Making of the Declaration of Independence. New York: Vintage, 1997.
Riemer, Neal. James Madison: Creating the American Constitution. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Inc, 1986.
Rutland, Robert Allen, et. al., editors. The Papers of James Madison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1975.
Rutland, Robert Allen. The Birth of the Bill of Rights, 1776–1791. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1983.
Schechter, Stephen L., and Richard Bernstein, editors. The Contexts of the Bill of Rights. Albany, New York: New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the Constitution, 1990.
Schwartz, Bernard, editor. The Roots of the Bill of Rights. Five Volumes. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1980.
Schwartz, Bernard. The Great Rights of Mankind: A History of the American Bill of Rights. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1992.
Swindler, William F., editor. Sources and Documents of United States Constitutions. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1973.
Tansill, Charles. Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1927.
Thorpe, F.N., editor. The Federal and State Constitutions. Seven Volumes. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909.
Veit, Helen, Kenneth Bowling, and Charles Bangs Bickford, editors. Creating the Bill of Rights: The Documentary Record of the First Federal Congress. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. New York: W. W. Norton & Sons, 1969.)