Sources and documents illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the formation of the Federal Constitution

Introduction : the taxation question, 1764-70

The western problem, 1763-88

The crisis, 1772-6

Sources and documents : from the royal proclamation on North America, October 1763 / George III

From James Otis's Rights of the colonies / by James Otis

A remonstrance from the Pennsylvania frontier, 13 February, 1764 / by Matthew Smith and James Gibson

The Virginia resolves on the Stamp Act, 30 May, 1765

Soame Jenyns's objections considered : the objections to the taxation of our American colonies by legislature of Great Britain, briefly considered : London, 1765 / by Soame Jenyns

From Daniel Dulany's Considerations : Considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes in the British colonies, for the purpose of raising a revenue, by act of Parliament / by Daniel Dulany

From Dickinson's farmer's letters, 1767-8 : Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British colonies / by John Dickinson.

Indian diplomacy : proceedings of a general congress of the Six Nations, etc. : the chiefs of Coghnawagey and of the senen Confederate nations of Canada and the deputys sent from the Cherokee Nation to treat of peace with the former before Sir William Johnson, Baronet, at Johnson Hall in March 1768

From the report of the Board of Trade and Plantations on the western problem, 7 March, 1768

The acts of trade and navigation in force, February 1769 : iinstructions by the Commissioners of his majesty's Customs in America, to John Mascarene, esquire who is appointed Comptroller of the customs at the port of Salem and Marblehead in America

The regulator movement in North carolina : petition of a frontier county, 9 October, 1769

Proceedings of the town of Boston : October-November 1772

Additional instructions to the royal governors, 3 February, 1774.

From the Massachusetts Government Act, 20 May, 1774 : an act for the better regulating the government of the province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England

From the Quebec Act, 22 June 1774 : An act for making more effectual provision for the government of the province of Quebec in north America

From James Wilson's considerations on the authority of parliament, August 1774 : considerations on the nature and extent of the legislative authority of the British Parliament

Joseph Galloway's plan of union : submitted to the Continential Congress, 28 September 1774

Declaration and resolves of the first Continental Congress, 14 October, 1774

The association, 20 October, 1774

From John Adams's Novanglus, no. 7, January 1775

Franklin on the Galloway Plan and the north resolution

Letters of Joseph Warren to Arthur Lee.

Declaration of causes of taking up arms, 6 July, 1775 : A declaration by thr representatives of the united colonies of North Americ, now met in congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms

Approaching independece : John Adams to James Warren

The Virginia Bill of Rights, 12 June 1776

The constitution of Virginia, 29 June 1776

The Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 : the unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America

Thje constitution of Pennsylvania, 28 September 1776 : the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as established by the general convention elected for that purpose, and held at Philadelphia, 15 July 1776, and continued by adjournment, to 28 September 1776 / Benjamin Franklin

Concord town meeting demands a constitutional convention, 21 October 1776

Articles of Confederation, 1777-1781

Royal instructions to the peace commission of 1778 : St. James's, 12 April 1778

Resolution of congr.

Resolution of congress on public lands and new states, 10 October 1780

Ordinance of congress on public lands, 20 May 1785 : an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territories

The Virginia statue of religious liberty, Octover 1785 : an act for establishing religious freedom

The background of Shays's rebellion

Letters on the internal sitution, 1786-1787 : John Jay to Washington : Philadelphia, June 27, 1786

Washington to John Jay : Mount Vernon, i August 1786

Washington to Henry Lee, in Congress : Mount Vernon, 31 October 1786

The French chargé d'affaires at New York, to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, September-October 1786

The Northwest Ordinance, 13 July 1787 : an ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio.