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[[File:Constitution of the United States, page 1.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Constitution of the United States

Created: September 17, 1787 Presented:	September 28, 1787 Ratified: June 21, 1788 Date effective: March 4, 1789 ]]

The Bibliography of the United States Constitution is a selection of books and journals about and primarily related to the Constitution of the United States that have been published since its ratification in 1787. Because many of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention set out to replace the Articles of Confederation rather than improve on it as was originally assumed, the Constitution was drafted in secret amid much controversy during the summer of 1787, and by September 17, 1787, it was signed by the delegates, establishing the government of the United States. Since then many historians have written about the Constitution, and the Founding Fathers who framed it. At this late date the U.S. Constitution is arguably the most written about subject involving American history with works having been published in four different centuries.

Preliminary notes

 * Books published before 1970 have no ISBN number.
 * Historical journals have no ISBN number, and usually possess a DOI number.
 * Various works have been reprinted – any year dates enclosed in [brackets] denote original year of publication
 * Primary sources are works authored by individuals closely associated to the event or idea in question and are listed separately in the Primary sources section.
 * Many general biographies of James Madison, the principal author of the Constitution, exist, which cover his involvement with that document to one extent or another. Such works can be found in the Bibliography of James Madison and are not included in this bibliography.
 * Encyclopedia articles and essays found on web pages are neither included here.

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 * ( Reprinted 1941, 1945, 1948,1950,1952, 1956 )




 * (Reprinted in 1888, 1890, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1916)



































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 * {{cite book |last=Seldes |first=George |author-link=George Seldes |editor=Leonard W. Levy |title=Freedom of the press {reprint) |editor-link=Leonard W. Levy |publisher=New York, Da Capo Press |year=1971 |orig-date=1935 |isbn= |url=https://archive.org/details/freedomofpress0000seld_y5v8 |ref=Seldes}}


















 * (Lowell Institute lectures, delivered at Boston, October–November, 1907)














 * {{cite book |last=Thorpe |first=Francis Newton |title=The Constitutional History of the United States, 1861-1895 (in three volumes} |volume=II |authorlink=Francis Newton Thorpe |publisher=Callahan & Company |location=Chicago |year=1911 |isbn= |url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionalh07thorgoog/page/n6/mode/2up |ref=thorpe1901a}}


 * {{cite book |last=Thorpe |first=Francis Newton |author-mask=2 |title=The Constitutional History of the United States, 1861-1895 (in three volumes} |volume=II |authorlink=Francis Newton Thorpe |publisher=Callahan & Company |location=Chicago |year=1901 |isbn= |url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionalh13thorgoog/page/n6/mode/2up |ref=thorpe1901b}}


 * {{cite book |last=Thorpe |first=Francis Newton |author-mask=2 |title=The Constitutional History of the United States, 1861-1895 (in three volumes} |volume=III |authorlink=Francis Newton Thorpe |publisher=Callahan & Company |location=Chicago |year=1901 |isbn= |url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionalh08thorgoog/page/n6/mode/2up |ref=thorpe1901c}}





































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Madison correspondence