The Founders' Bookshelf

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 met in the city of Philadelphia, in the very room where the Declaration of Independence had been signed eleven years earlier. It was attended by 55 delegates from all of the original thirteen united states, Rhode Island excepted. This Convention produced the United States Constitution, which was signed by 39 of the delegates on September 17, 1787. Below are the records of the debates, the notes taken by the several delegates of the Convention, and other records of the documents which led up the Constitution of the United States of America.

• The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (edited by Max Farrand), 3 volumes
• Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (edited by Jonathan Elliot), 4 volumes
• Letters of the Delegates to Congress
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U. S. Congressional Documents and Sessions (1774-1875)
• Library of Congress: American Memory
  
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: The American Constitution
• U. S. Constitution Online (website)
• Notes of the Convention (by delegate; Madison's Notes by day)
• Sketches of the Delegates, by Delegate William Pierce of Georgia
• United States Constitution (Federali.st)

• The Federalist Papers (coming soon!)
• The Anti-Federalist Papers (coming soon!)