ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1927.

Declarations and resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774 -- Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms, July 6, 1775 -- Resolution of secrecy adopted by the Continental Congress, November 9, 1775 -- Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 -- Articles of Confederation, March 1, 1781 -- Credentials of the members of the Federal Convention -- Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 as reported by James Madison -- Notes of Rufus King in the Federal Convention of 1787 -- Notes of Alexander Hamilton in the Federal Convention of 1787 -- Variant texts of the Virginia plan presented by Edmund Randolph to the Federal Convention, May 29, 1787: Text A, Text B, Text C -- The plan of Charles Pinckney (South Carolina) -- Variant texts of the plan presented by William Paterson (New Jersey) -- Variant texts of the plan presented by Alexander Hamilton to the Federal Convetion, June 18, 1787 -- The Constitution of the United States -- Resolution of the Federal Convention submitting the Constitution to Congress, September 17, 1787 -- Resolution of the Congress, September 28, 1787, submitting the Constitution to the several states -- Ratification of the Constitution by the several states, arranged in the order of their ratification --Resolution of the First Congress submitting 12 amendments to the Constitution -- The first 10 amendments to the Constitution -- Subsequent amendments to the Constitution.