Constitutional Hall Pass
Constitutional Hall Pass
The National Constitution Center's video series on constitutional history.
Books
The Federalist Papers by Call Number: Main Library KF4515 .F4 2003ISBN: 9780451528810Publication Date: 2003-04-01A series of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. Seventy-seven were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October of 1787 and August 1788.
How to Read the Constitution--And Why by Call Number: Main Library KF4541 .W44 2019ISBN: 9780062896308Publication Date: 2019-06-25An insightful, urgent, and perennially relevant handbook that spells out in clear, simple, and common sense terms what is in the Constitution, and most importantly, what it means.
Primary Sources
National Archives' Constitution site
Includes transcriptions of the Constitution and all amendments.
- Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789
The Library of Congress' digital collection of documents relating to the early Congresses and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. - Primary Documents in American History
The Library of Congress' web guide to the U.S. Constitution.
Full text of the Federalist Papers (Library of Congress)
This web-friendly presentation of the original text of the Federalist Papers (also known as The Federalist) was obtained from the e-text archives of Project Gutenberg. Any irregularities with regard to grammar, syntax, spelling, or punctuation are as they exist in the original e-text archives.
Podcasts
A weekly show of constitutional debate hosted by National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen where listeners can hear the best arguments on all sides of the constitutional issues at the center of American life.