Sources and documents illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the formation of the Federal Constitution
By: selected and edited by Samuel Eliot Morison
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780195002621
Subjects: Constitutional history; Sources; American Revolution (1775-1783) fast (OCoLC)fst01351668; Causes; History
Description: Contains primary source material.

The sources and documents presented in this book reflect the ideological revolution in America, encompassing the growth of independent sentiment in the colonies, the break with the mother country, and the establishment of a federal government by the states. All the essential documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Federal Constitution are included here, as are the more important acts, resolves, state constitutions, and royal instructions not easily attainable elsewhere. The popular feeling that found its eventual expression in the great comprehensive documents of the Revolution is recreated through selections from debates, letters, and pamphlets. Altogether, these sources and documents bring into sharp focus the taxation question, the Western problem (proceedings of an Indian congress and frontier petitions are included), the War of Independence, and the formation of state and federal constitutions (including debates over slavery and the centralization of the government).
Notes: Reprint of the 1929 ed. published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the taxation question, 1764-70; title: The western problem, 1763-88; title: The crisis, 1772-6; title: Sources and documents : from the royal proclamation on North America, October 1763 / George III; title: From James Otis's Rights of the colonies / by James Otis; title: A remonstrance from the Pennsylvania frontier, 13 February, 1764 / by Matthew Smith and James Gibson; title: The Virginia resolves on the Stamp Act, 30 May, 1765; title: 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; title: 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; title: From Dickinson's farmer's letters, 1767-8 : Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania to the inhabitants of the British colonies / by John Dickinson.; title: 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; title: From the report of the Board of Trade and Plantations on the western problem, 7 March, 1768; title: 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; title: The regulator movement in North carolina : petition of a frontier county, 9 October, 1769; title: Proceedings of the town of Boston : October-November 1772; title: Additional instructions to the royal governors, 3 February, 1774.; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Joseph Galloway's plan of union : submitted to the Continential Congress, 28 September 1774; title: Declaration and resolves of the first Continental Congress, 14 October, 1774; title: The association, 20 October, 1774; title: From John Adams's Novanglus, no. 7, January 1775; title: Franklin on the Galloway Plan and the north resolution; title: Letters of Joseph Warren to Arthur Lee.; title: 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; title: Approaching independece : John Adams to James Warren; title: The Virginia Bill of Rights, 12 June 1776; title: The constitution of Virginia, 29 June 1776; title: The Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 : the unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America; title: 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; title: Concord town meeting demands a constitutional convention, 21 October 1776; title: Articles of Confederation, 1777-1781; title: Royal instructions to the peace commission of 1778 : St. James's, 12 April 1778; title: Resolution of congr.; title: Resolution of congress on public lands and new states, 10 October 1780; title: Ordinance of congress on public lands, 20 May 1785 : an ordinance for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the western territories; title: The Virginia statue of religious liberty, Octover 1785 : an act for establishing religious freedom; title: The background of Shays's rebellion; title: Letters on the internal sitution, 1786-1787 : John Jay to Washington : Philadelphia, June 27, 1786; title: Washington to John Jay : Mount Vernon, i August 1786; title: Washington to Henry Lee, in Congress : Mount Vernon, 31 October 1786; title: The French chargé d'affaires at New York, to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, September-October 1786; title: The Northwest Ordinance, 13 July 1787 : an ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio.