The Federalist (Gideon ed.)

The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle is a collection of Anti-Federalist writings closely connected to Melancton Smith and his associates in New York, who wrote extensive and penetrating critiques of the proposed constitution. Their writings often contrasted sharply with the…

View of the Constitution of the United States with Selected Writings of St. George Tucker presents one of the first critical appraisals of the Constitution to be written after ratification. Tucker’s views were often more in line with the decentralized and limited forms of federalism favored by…

The Essential Antifederalist Second Edition, presents the main themes of the principal critics of the Constitution. It organizes the oppositional writings thematically which makes possible a ready comparison with the writings of Publius.

Besides Wilson’s famous Lectures on Law, this edition includes noteworthy speeches and essays with his opinions in several Supreme Court Cases that further elucidate his thoughts on the Constitution.

This book of Anti-Federalist writings presents a collection of texts critical of the Constitution as it was originally proposed. The book makes avaiable in a single volume essays that are commensurate in political brilliance and significance with The Federalist.

In this volume, the essays that helped make Hamilton’s reputation as a writer and thinker prior to the ratification of the Constitution are collected. Here one will discover his earliest thoughts is support of the American Revolution and his initial ideas respecting the need for a stronger national…

This collection brings together the speeches and letters of one of the most influential Federalists of the Founding Era. They reveal the core sets of ideas that distinguished the Federalists from their Jeffersonian Republican opponents.

This collection of Morris’ writings includes public letters, documents, and speeches presented in chronological order. The collection sheds light on Morris ideas and his influence on the writing and spirit of the Constitution.

There were many writers other than John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton who, in 1787 and 1788, argued for the Constitution’s ratification. In a collection central to our understanding of the American founding, Friends of the Constitution brings together forty-nine of the most important…

This book was the first extended commentary on the US Constitution. It was originally part of Tucker’s “Americanized” or “republicanized” edition of the multivolume Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone.

This Revised Edition of The Essential Antifederalist continues the original, important contribution to the history and thought of the founding. Thematically organized, this work helps in making direct comparisons with the arguments presented in the Federalist essays.