Articles of Confederation, 1777
The Administration of Justice and the Description of the Laws by Thomas Jefferson, 1781
Report on Government for Western Territory by Thomas Jefferson, 1784
Short Observations on Slavery by Anthony Benezet, 1785
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A Proclamation by James Bowdoin, 1786
The Grand Committee on the Subject of the Western Territory, 1786
Letter from James Madison to General Washington, 1787
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787
Constitution of the United States of America, 1787
Debates in the Federal Convention, 1787
The Federal Convention, Article VII, Section 4, 1787
The Constitutional Convention of 1787
The Constitution (image), 1787
Mrs. Mary Dewees' Journal from Philadelphia to Kentucky, 1787-1788
The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton, 1788
Patrick Henry's Speech, June 14, 1788
Map of the Northwest Territory, n.d.