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Decision in Philadelphia
by Christopher and James Collier

The Living U.S. Constitution
by Jacob Landynski and Saul Padover

The Bill of Rights
by Akhil Amar

The Anti-Federalist Papers
by Ralph Ketcham (Ed.)

The Federalist Papers
by Charles Kesler (Ed.)
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Author
Link
America's Constitution: A Biography
Akhil Reed Amar
The Truth (With Jokes)
Al Franken
Using Terri : The Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights
Jon Eisenberg
Plan of Attack
Bob Woodward
The 37th Amendment: A Novel
Susan Shelley
Constitutional Law Stories
Michael Dorf
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Al Franken

Steve's Favorites

Title
Author
Link
America (The Book) : A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Jon Stewart
America's Constitution: A Biography
Akhil Reed Amar
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
Ralph Ketcham
The Bill of Rights
Akhil Amar
Decision at Philadelphia
Christopher Collier, James Collier
The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States
Introduction by Pauline Maier
Don't Know Much About History : Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
Kenneth C. Davis
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Charles Beard
The Federalist Papers : Bantam Classic
Garry Wills, ed.
The Federalist Papers
Charles Kessler, ed.
Founding Brothers
Joseph J. Ellis
Impeachment: A Handbook
Charles L. Black, Jr.
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Al Franken
The Living U.S. Constitution
Saul K. Padover and Jacob W. Landynski
Miracle at Philadelphia
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Origins of the Bill of Rights
Leonard W. Levy
The People's Choice
Jeff Greenfield
A People's History of the Supreme Court
Peter Irons
On Reading the Constitution
Laurence Tribe and Michael Dorf
The Spirit of 1787
Milton Lomask
The Truth (With Jokes)
Al Franken
Terrorism and the Constitution
David Cole and James Dempsey
The U.S. Constitution for Everyone
Mort Gerberg
Using Terri : The Religious Right's Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights
Jon Eisenberg

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Richard Cox
John Adams
David McCullough
Ken Grady
Original Intent
David Barton
Zachary J. Peterson
Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Jack N. Rakove
Kevin Himebaugh
The Tempting of America : The Political Seduction of the Law
Robert H. Bork
Herbert Nowell
The Turning Point
Scott McMahan Bowman
Scott Bowman
Extremism Triumphant: The Politics of Slavery and Abortion
Darin Wipperman
Darin Wipperman
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The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, James Jay
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Rudyard Kipling
The Star-Spangled Banner
John Carpenter
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Abraham Lincoln; forword by Gary Wills
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Matthew Spalding ed.
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1776
William Daniels
VHS Tape
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1776
William Daniels
DVD
G
1776
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The American Revolution
Lisa Bourgourjian
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This Is America, Charlie Brown V. 6 - The Birth of the Constitution
Peanuts
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United States Constitution
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Children's Books

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Author
Link
The Bill of Rights (Cornerstones of Freedom) -Children's-
R. Conrad Stein
The Constitution of the United States -Children's-
Karen Judson
The Declaration of Independence (Cornerstones of Freedom) -Children's-
Richard Conrad Stein
If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution -Children's-
Elizabeth Levy

The United States Constitution

Title
Author
Link
American Constitution : It's Origin and Development
Alfred Hinsey Kelly, Winfred Harbison, Herman Belz
The American Constitution and Its Provenance
Richard G. Stevens
A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments
John R. Vile
The Constitution of the United States
Harold J. Spaeth, Edward Conrad Smith
The Constitution of the United States : A Primer for the People
David P. Currie
The Constitution of the United States : An Introduction
Floyd G. Cullop
CQ's Guide to the U.S. Constitution
Ralph Mitchell
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Charles Austin Beard
The Exhaustive Concordance to the United States Constitution : With Topical Index and Rapid Reference Constitution
Dennis Bizzoco (Editor)
The Frozen Republic : How the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy
Daniel Lazare
The People's Guide to the United States Constitution
Dave Kluge

The Framers and The Critics

Title
Author
Link
The Anti Federalists : Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788
Jackson Turner Main
Are We to Be a Nation : The Making of the Constitution
Richard B. Bernstein, Kym S. Rice
The Complete Bill of Rights : The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins
Neil H. Cogan (Editor)
Creating the Bill of Rights : The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress
Helen E. Veit (Editor), Kenneth R. Bowling, Charlene B. Bickford (Editor)
Creating the Constitution : The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress
Thornton Anderson
The Creation of the Constitution : Opposing Viewpoints
William Dudley (Editor)
The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification, Part One
Bernard Bailyn (Editor)
The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification, Part Two
Bernard Bailyn (Editor)
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton
1776
David McCullough
Founding Brothers
Joseph J. Ellis
Founding Mothers
Cokie Roberts
American Sphinx : The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Joseph J. Ellis
His Excellency : George Washington
Joseph J. Ellis
John Jay : Founding Father
Walter Stahr
John Adams
David McCullough
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
Benjamin Franklin : An American Life
Walter Isaacson

The Legislature

Title
Author
Link
The American Speakership : The Office in Historical Perspective
Ronald M. Peters
Congress, the Constitution, & the Supreme Court
Charles Warren
Civil Rights, the Constitution, and Congress, 1863-1869
Earl M. Maltz
Arguing About Slavery : John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress
William Lee Miller
The Citizen's Guide to Lobbying Congress
Donald E. Dekieffer
Congress, the Press, and the Public
Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein (Editor)
Contest for Constitutional Authority : The Abortion and War Powers Debates
Susan R. Burgess
The Making of an American Senate : Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787-1841
Elaine K. Swift
The Senate of the United States : A Bicentennial History
Richard A. Baker

The Executive

Title
Author
Link
The American Presidency : Origins and Development, 1776-1993
Sidney M. Milkis, Michael Nelson
At the President's Side : The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century
Timothy Walch (Editor)
The Constitution and the American Presidency
Martin Fausold, Alan Shank
Constitutional Conflicts Between Congress and the President
Louis Fisher
The People's Choice
Jeff Greenfield
Powers of the Presidency
compiled by The Congressional Quarterly
The President, Congress and the Constitution : Power and Legitimacy in American Politics
Christopher H. Pyle and Richard M Pious
The President : Office and Powers, 1787-1984
Edward Corwin
The Starr Report : The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the White House Scandals with Analysis by the Staff of The Washington Post
Kenneth Starr

The Supreme Court

Title
Author
Link
Congress, the Constitution, & the Supreme Court
Charles Warren
The Constitution in the Supreme Court; The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888
David P. Currie
Criminal Procedure and the Constitution, 1997 : Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text
Jerold H. Israel
Furman V. Georgia : The Death Penalty and the Constitution
Burt M. Henson, Ross R. Olney
The Living Constitution : Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
Peter P. Sgroi
A People's History of the Supreme Court
Peter Irons

The Bill of Rights and the Amendments

Title
Author
Link
The Amendments to the Constitution : A Commentary
George Anastaplo
The Bill of Rights : Original Meaning and Current Understanding
Eugene W. Hickok
The Bill of Rights : What It Is, What It Means, and How It's Been Misused
Shannon Leigh Fallon
The Bill of Rights in Modern America : After 200 Years
David J. Bodenhamer, James W. Ely (Editor)
The Bill of Rights in the Modern State
Geoffrey R. Stone, Richard A. Epstein, Cass R. Sunstein (Editor)
The Bill of Rights
Akhil Amar
Constitutional Brinkmanship : Amending the Constitution by National Convention
Russell L. Caplan
Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-1995
John R. Vile
Gun Control and the Constitution : Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment
Robert J. Cottrol (Editor)
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment : Its Complete History and Earliest Applications
John D. Feerick

Other Constitutional Topics

Title
Author
Link
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About American History
John A. Garraty
Affirmative Action : Social Justice or Reverse Discrimination?
Francis J. Beckwith (Editor), Todd E. Jones (Editor)
The Alchemy of Race and Rights
Patricia J. Williams
Constitutions of the World : A Philadelphia Constitution Foundation Book
Albert P. Blaustein
Don't Know Much About History : Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
Kenneth C. Davis
The First Impeachment : The Constitution's Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount
Buckner F. Melton
Japanese Americans Struggle for Equality
Liane Hirabayashi
Recapturing the Constitution; Race, Religion, and Abortion Reconsidered
Stephen B. Presser
Rethinking Abortion : Equal Choice, the Constitution, and Reproductive Politics
Mark A. Graber
The Right to Privacy : Gays, Lesbians, and the Constitution
Vincent J. Samar
A Well Regulated Militia : The Battle over Gun Control
William Weir

The Declaration of Independence

Title
Author
Link
American Scripture : Making the Declaration of Independence
Pauline Maier
The Declaration of Independence with Short Biographies of its Signers
Benson Lossing
To Secure These Rights : The Declaration of Independence
Scott Douglas Gerber, Henry Julian Abraham
Unlocking the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
Robert M. Goldberg, Richard M. Haynes

The Articles of Confederation

Title
Author
Link
The Articles of Confederation; An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution 1774-1781
Merrill Jensen
A Politics of Tensions : The Articles of Confederation and American Political Ideas
Robert W. Hoffert

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