Recovering Our Forgotten Preamble

This list includes books, pamphlets, and even a play. Books are organized alphabetically by title, ignoring the word "the" for titles that begin with "the."

American Archives: A Collection of Authentick Records, State Papers, Debates, and Letters and Other Notices of Publick Affairs (Peter Force ed., 1840)

American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster (1828)

The American Remembrancer by James Hardie (1795)

Aristotle: Politica (Benjamin Jowett trans., 1885)

The Bible in American Law, Politics, and Political Rhetoric (James Turner Johnson ed., 1984)

A Brief Statutory History of the United States Department of Agriculture by Francis G. Caffey (1916)

Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln Volume 3 by Abraham Lincoln (Rutgers Univ. Press 1953)

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Volume 1 by Joseph Story(1833)

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Volume 2 by Joseph Story(1833)

Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone (1765)

The Complete Anti-Federalist (Herbert J. Storing ed., 1981)

The Conduct of the Late Administration Examined by Charles Lloyd (1767)

The Constitutional Law of the United States, Volume 1 by Westel Willoughby (2d ed., 1929)

The Crisis, Number I (also known as The American Crisis) by Thomas Paine (1775)

Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (1623)

A Defence of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Entered Into Between the United States of America & Great Britain, As It Has Appeared in the Papers Under the Signature of Camillus by Alexander Hamilton (1795)

Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (Leonard W. Levy, Kenneth L. Karst & Adam Winkler eds., rev. ed. 2000) (1987)

An Examination of the Late Proceedings in Congress, Respecting the Official Conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury by John Taylor (1793)

The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible by James Strong (1890)

The Federal and State Constitutions (Francis Newton Thorpe ed., 1909)

Figures of the Past by Josiah Quincy (1883)

The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England 79a by Edward Coke (rev. ed. 1853) (1628)

The Founders' Constitution (Philip B. Kurland & Ralph Lerner eds., 1987)

The Framing of the Constitution of the United States by Max Farrand (1913)

General Smith's Views on the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States by Joseph Smith (1844)

The History of New Hampshire: Comprehending the Events of Seventy Five Years Volume 2 by Jeremy Belknap (1791)

A Journal, of the Captivity and Sufferings of John Foss by John Foss (1795)

The Jubilee of the Constitution: A Discourse by John Quincy Adams (1839)

The Law of Nations, or, Principles of the Law of Nature by Emerich de Vattel (4th ed., 1811)

The Legacy of the French Revolution (Ralph C. Hancock & L. Gary Lambert eds., 1996)

Leviathan, or, The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill by Thomas Hobbes (1651)

The Life of John Warren, M.D. by Edward Warren (1874)

Observations on the Federal Government by James Monroe (1788)

Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments Respecting North America, 1754-1783, (R.C. Simmons & P.D.G. Thomas eds., 1982-1987)

The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (Max Farrand ed., 1911)

Role of Preamble in the Interpretation of Constitution by Shubham Borkar (2012)

The Speeches of Daniel Webster, and His Master-Pieces by Daniel Webster (B. F. Tefft ed., 1854)

Speeches of John C. Calhoun by John C. Calhoun (Richard K. Crallé ed., 1883)

Statesman's Manual: Presidents' Messages (Edwin Williams ed., 1849) (volume 1)

The Strictures on the Friendly Address Examined, and a Refutation of its Principles Attempted by Henry Barry (1775)

Supplement to Max Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (James H. Hutson, ed., 1987)

The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (1759)

Understanding State Constitutions by G. Alan Tarr (1998)

A View of the Constitution of the United States of America by William Rawle (1829)

The Writings of James Madison by James Madison (Gaillard Hunt, ed., 1900)