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Revolutionary War/Constitutional Era

A Select Bibliography on Legal and Constitutional Development

Compiled by Christina S. Thomas, Liberty University

Journal Articles

Adair, Douglass. “’That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science’: David Hume, James Madison, and the Tenth Federalist.” Huntington Library Quarterly 20, no 4, Early American History Number (August 1957): 343–360.

Barker, Robert S. “Natural Law and the United States Constitution.” The Review of Metaphysics 66, no. 1 (September 2012): 105–130.

Broadwater, Jeff. “James Madison and the Constitution: Reassessing the “Madison Problem.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 123, no. 3 (2015): 202–235.

Chapin, Bradley. “Felony Law Reform in the Early Republic.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 113, no. 2 (April 1989): 163–183.

Corwin, Edwin. “The Basic Doctrine of American Constitutional Law.” Michigan Law Review 12, no. 4 (February 1914): 247–276.

Dippel, Horst. “The Changing Idea of Popular Sovereignty in Early American Constitutionalism: Breaking Away from European Patterns.” Journal of the Early Republic 16, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 21–45.

Edlin, Douglas E. “Judicial Review without a Constitution.” Polity 38, no. 3 (July 2006): 345–368.

Gienapp, Jonathan. “Making Constitutional Meaning: The Removal Debate and the Birth of Constitutional Essentialism.” Journal of the Early Republic 35, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 375–418.

Gould, Eliga. “Independence and Interdependence: The American Revolution and The Problem of Postcolonial Nationhood, circa 1802.” The William and Mary Quarterly 74, no. 4 Writing to and From the Revolution: A Joint Issue with the Journal of the Early Republic (October 2017): 729–752.

Greene, Jack P. “The American Revolution.” The American Historical Review 105, no. 1 (February 2000): 93–102.

John, Richard R. “Governmental Institutions as Agents of Change: Rethinking American Political Development in the Early Republic, 1787–1835.” Studies in American Political Development 11 (Fall 1997): 347–380.

Kenyon, Cecelia M. “Men of Little Faith: The Anti-Federalists on the Nature of Representative Government.” The William and Mary Quarterly 12, no. 1 (January 1955): 3–43.

Kloppenberg, James T. “The Virtues of Liberalism: Christianity, Republicanism, and Ethics in Early American Political Discourse.” Journal of American History 74, no. 1 (June 1987): 9–33.

Kramer, Larry. “Understanding Marbury v. Madison.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 148, no. 1 (March 2004): 14–26.

Kramnick, Isaac. “The ‘Great National Discussion’: The Discourse of Politics in 1787.” The William and Mary Quarterly 45, no. 1 (January 1988): 3–32.

Lenner, Andrew C. “John Taylor and the Origins of American Federalism.” Journal of the Early Republic 17, no. 3 (Autumn 1997): 399–423.

Levy, Leonard W. “Liberty and the First Amendment: 1790–1800.” The American Historical Review 68, no. 1 (October 1962): 22–37.

Lovejoy, David S. “Rights Imply Equality: The Case Against Admiralty Jurisdiction in America, 1746–1766.” The William and Mary Quarterly 16, no. 4 (October 1959): 459–484.

Maier, Pauline. “Narrative, Interpretation, and the Ratification of the Constitution.” The William and Mary Quarterly 69, no. 2 (April 2012): 382–390.

McDonald, Forrest. “The Anti-Federalists, 1781–1789.” The Wisconsin Magazine of History 46, no. 3 (Spring 1963): 206–214.

Morgan, Edmund S. “Colonial Ideas of Parliamentary Power 1764–1766.” The William and Mary Quarterly 5, no. 3 (July 1948): 311–341.

Nelson, William H. “The Revolutionary Character of the American Revolution.” The American Historical Review 70, no. 4 (July 1965): 998–1014.

Novak, William J. “Law, Capitalism, and the Liberal State: The Historical Sociology of James Willard Hurst.” Law and History Review 18, no. 1 (Spring, 2000): 97–145.

Palfreyman, Brett. “The Loyalists and the Federal Constitution: The Origins of the Bill of Attainder Clause.” Journal of the Early Republic 35, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 451–473.

Plous, Harold J. and Gordon E. Baker. “McCulloch v. Maryland Right Principle, Wrong Case.” Stanford Law Review 9, no. 4 (July 1957): 710–730.

Pole, J. R. “Reflections on American Law and the American Revolution.” The William and Mary Quarterly 50, no. 1 Law and Society in Early America (January 1993): 123–159.

Rao, Gautham. “The New Historiography of the Early Federal Government: Institutions, Contexts, and the Imperial State.” The William and Mary Quarterly 77, no. 1 (January 2020): 97–128.

Robinson, James A. “Newtonianism and the Constitution.” Midwest Journal of Political Science 1, no. 3/4 (November 1957): 252–266.

Rodgers, Daniel T. “Republicanism: the Career of a Concept.” The Journal of American History 79, no. 1 (June 1992): 11–38.

Sunstein, Cass R. “Beyond the Republican Revival.” Yale Law Journal 97, no. 8, Symposium: The Republican Civic Tradition (July 1988): 1539–1590.

Van Alstyne, William W. and John Marshall. “A Critical Guide to Marbury v. Madison.” Duke Law Journal 1969, no. 1 (February 1969): 1–47.

Van Cleve, George William. “The Anti-Federalists’ Toughest Challenge: Paper Money, Debt Relief, and the Ratification of the Constitution.” Journal of the Early Republic 34 no. 4 (Winter 2014): 529–560.

White, G. Edward. “The Constitutional Journey of ‘Marbury v. Madison’.” Virginia Law Review 89, no. 6 Marbury v. Madison: A Bicentennial Symposium (October 2003): 1463–1573.

Williams, Robert F. “The Influences of Pennsylvania’s 1776 Constitution on American Constitutionalism during the Founding Decade.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 112, no. 1 (January 1988): 25–48.

Witt, John Fabian. “Law and War in American History .” The American Historical Review 115, no. 3 (June 2010): 768–788.

Wood, Gordon S. “The Significance of the Early Republic.” Journal of the Early Republic 8, no. 1 (Spring 1988): 1–20.

Zuckert, Michael P. “Federalism and the Founding: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Constitutional Convention.” The Review of Politics 48, no. 2 (Spring 1986): 166–210.

Books

Appleby, Joyce. Capitalism and a New Social Order. New York: New York University Press, 1984.

Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution. London: Penguin Books, 2006.

Bailyn, Bernard. Ideological Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Ball, Terrance and J. G. A. Pocock, eds. Conceptual Change and the Constitution. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1988.

Beeman, Richard, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Cater II, eds. Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Benedict, Michael Les. The Blessings of Liberty, 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.

Brown, Richard D., ed. Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution: Documents and Essays, 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Cox, Thomas H. Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009.

Currie, David P. The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789–1888. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Edling, Max M. A Revolution in Favor of Government. Oxford, England, UK: University of Oxford Press, 2003.

Ellis, Richard. Aggressive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

———. The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

———. The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States’ Rights, and the Nullification Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998.

Friedman, Lawrence M. Law in America: A Short History. New York: Modern Library, 2004.

Goebel Jr., Julius. History of the Supreme Court of the United States: Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971.

Greene, Jack P. The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

———. Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1994.

———. Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607–1788. New York: W. W. Norton, 1990.

———, ed. The Reinterpretation of the American Revolution: 1763–1789. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

Hall, Kermit, ed. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Hall, Kermit and James W. Ely, Jr., eds. An Uncertain Tradition: Constitutionalism and the History of the South. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

Hall, Kermit, Paul Finkelman, and James W. Ely, Jr., eds. American Legal History: Cases and Materials. 5th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Hall, Kermit, and Timothy Huebner, eds. Major Problems in American Constitutional History: Documents and Essays, 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2010.

Hartog, Hendrik. Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730–1870. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Horwitz, Morton J. The Transformation of American Law, 1780–1860. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Hurst, James Willard. Law and the Conditions of Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964.

Kammen, Michael, ed. The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History. New York: Penguin Books, 1986.

Kramnick, Isaac, Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism: Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and the United States. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Levy, Leonard W., and Dennis J. Mahoney, eds. The Framing and Ratification of the Constitution. New York: Macmillan Publishing, 1987.

Main, Jackson Tuner. The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781–1788, 2nd ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

McDonald, Forrest. E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic, 1776–1790. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

———. Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1985.

Nash, Gary B. The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.

Nelson, William E. Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact of Legal Change on Massachusetts Society, 1760–1830. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.

Newmyer, R. Kent. The Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney, 2nd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.

Pocock, J. G. A. Machiavellian Moment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.

Rakove, Jack. Original Meanings. New York: Vintage Books, 1997.

Reid, John Phillip. The Concept of Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

———. The Concept of Representation in the Age of the American Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

———. Constitutional History of the American Revolution. Abr. ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

Tomlins, Christopher L. Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Urofsky, Melvin I., ed. A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

Urofsky, Melvin I., and Paul Finkelman, eds. Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, Volume I From the Founding to 1896. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Wood, Gordon S. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1969.

———. The Radicalism of the American. New York: Vintage, 1993.

Yirush, Craig. Settlers, Liberty, and Empire: The Roots of Early American Political Theory, 1675–1775. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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