"Selected, arranged, and indexed by Charles C. Tansill. Prepared under the general supervision of H.H.B. Meyer, director, Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress."--P. [iii]

Declaration and resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 14, 1774 -- Resolves adopted in Charlotte Town, Mecklenburg County, N.C., May 31, 1775 -- Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms, July 6, 1775 -- Resolution of secrecy adopted by the Continental Congress, November 9, 1775 -- Preamble and resolution of the Virginia Convention, May 15, 1776, instructing the Virginia delegates in the Continental Congress to "propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies free and independent states" -- Resolution introduced in the Continental Congress by Richard Henry Lee (Virginia) proposing a declaration of independence, June 7, 1776 -- Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 -- Articles of Confederation, March 1, 1781 -- Resolution of the General Assembly of Virginia, January 21, 1786, proposing a joint meeting of commissioners from the states to consider and recommend a federal plan for regulating commerce -- Proceedings of commissioners to remedy defects of the Federal Government, Annapolis, Md., 1786 -- Report of proceedings in Congress, Wednesday, February 21, 1787 -- Ordinance of 1787, July 13, 1787 -- Credentials of the members of the Federal Convention -- Notes of Major William Pierce (Georgia) in the Federal Convention of 1787: loose sketches and notes taken in the convention, May, 1787 -- Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 as reported by James Madison -- Secret proceeding and debates of the convention assembled at Philadelphia in the year 1787, for the purpose of forming the Constitution of the United States of America (from the notes taken by the late Robert Yates, Esq., Chief Justice of New York (Albany), 1821) -- Notes of Rufus King in the Federal Convention of 1787 -- Notes of William Paterson in the Federal Convention of 1787 -- Notes of Alexander Hamilton in the Federal Convention of 1787 -- Papers of Dr. James McHenry on the Federal Convention of 1787 -- Variant texts of the Virginia plan presented by Edmund Randolph to the Federal Convention, May 29, 1787: Text A ; Text B ; Text C -- The plan of Charles Pinckney (South Carolina), presented to the Federal Convention, May 29, 1787 -- Variant texts of the plan presented by William Paterson (New Jersey), to the Federal Convention, June 15, 1787: Text A ; Text B ; Text C -- Variant texts of the plan presented by Alexander Hamilton to the Federal Convention, June 18, 1787: Text A ; Text B ; Text C ; Text D ; Text E -- The Constitution of the United States -- Letter of the president of the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787, to the President of Congress, September 17, 1787 -- Resolution of Congress, September 28, 1787, submitting the Constitution to the several states -- Circular letter of the Secretary of Congress, September 28, 1787, transmitting copy of the Constitution to the several governors -- Ratification of the Constitution by the several states, arranged in the order of their ratification -- Resolution of Congress, July 2, 1788, submitting ratifications of the Constitution to a committee -- Resolution of the Congress, September 13, 1788, fixing date for the election of a president, and the organization of the Government under the Constitution -- Resolution of the First Congress submitting 12 amendments to the Constitution -- The first 10 amendments to the Constitution -- Subsequent amendments to the Constitution.

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