anasseh Cutler_, 2
vols., Cincinnati, 1887.

In the _Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political
Science_, the following articles bear especially upon subjects here
treated and are worthy of careful study: II., v., vi., H.C. Adams,
_Taxation in the United States_, 1789-1816; III., i., H.B. Adams,
_Maryland's Influence upon Land Cessions to the United States_; III.,
ix., x., Davis, _American Constitutions_; IV., v., Jameson's
_Introduction to the Constitutional and Political History of the
Individual States_; IV., vii.-ix., Shoshuke Sato's _History of the Land
Question in the United States_.

For the proceedings of the Federal Convention in framing the
Constitution, and of the several state conventions in ratifying it, the
great treasure-house of authoritative information is Elliot's _Debates
in the Conventions_, 5 vols., originally published under the sanction of
Congress in 1830-45; new reprint, Phila., 1888. The contents of the
volumes are as follows:--

I. Sundry preliminary papers, relating to the ante-revolutionary
period, and the period of the Confederation; journal of the Federal
Convention; Yates's minutes of the proceedings; the official
letters of Martin, Yates, Lansing, Randolph, Mason, and Gerry, in
explanation of their several courses; Jay's address to the people
of New York; and other illustrative papers.

II, III., IV. Proceedings of the several state conventions; with
other documents, including the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of
1798, and data relating thereto.

V. Madison's journal of debates in the Congress of the
Confederation, Nov. 4, 1782-June 21, 1783, and Feb. 19-April 25,
1787; Madison's journal of the Federal Convention; letters from
Madison to Washington, Jefferson, and Randolph, Sept. 1787-Nov.
1788; and other papers.

The best edition of the "Federalist" is by H.C. Lodge, N.Y., 1888. See
also Story's _Commentaries on the Constitution_, 4th ed., 3 vols.,
Boston, 1873; the works of Daniel Webster, 6 vols., Boston, 1851; Hurd's
_Theory of our National Existence_, Boston, 1881. The above works
expound the Constitution as not a league between sovereign states but a
fundamental law ordained by the people of the United States. The
opposite view is presented in _The Republic of Republics_, by P.C. Centz
[Plain Common Sense, pseudonym of B.J. Sage of New Orleans], Boston,
1881; the works of Calhoun, 6