The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence

367 Pages·2009·0.65 MB·English

by  Jack N. Rakove

the annotated
u.s. constitution
and declaration
of inde pen dence

The Annotated
U.S. Constitution
and Declaration
of Inde pen dence
Edited by
Jack N. Rakove
The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
and London, England
2009
Copyright © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Rakove, Jack N., 1947–
The annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence /
edited by Jack N. Rakove.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-674-03606-2 (alk. paper)
1. United States. Constitution. 2. United States. Constitution. 1st–27th
Amendments. 3. United States. Declaration of Independence.
4. Constitutional law—United States. 5. Constitutional history—United States.
I. Rakove, Jack N., 1947– II. United States. Declaration of Independence.
III. United States. Constitution. IV. United States. Constitution.
1st–27th Amendments. V. Title: Annotated United States
Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
KF4527.A56 2009
342.7302—dc22
2009022907
To my grandparents of blessed memory
Jacob & Rose Rakove
Louis & Nellie Bloom
who, by “making an election of government, more than
of air, soil, or climate, for themselves or their children,”
did secure the blessings of liberty for their posterity.

Contents
A Note to the Reader xi
Introduction 1
The Declaration of Inde pen dence 73
The U.S. Constitution 103
Amendments to the Constitution 219
A Calendar of Events 311
Further Reading 344
Credits 349
Acknowledgments 352

Illustrations
Signatures on the U.S. Constitution (1787) 3
The Boston Tea Party (1789) 9
Engagement at the North Bridge in Concord (1775) 12
Thomas Jefferson, by John Trumbull (1788) 17
James Madison, by Charles Willson Peale (1783) 28
Inde pen dence Hall (1774) 31
Daniel Shays and Job Shattuck (1787) 32
“Vices of the Political System,” by James Madison (1787) 34
Gouverneur Morris, by R. Wilkinson (1783) 49
Advertisement for The Federalist (1788) 53
Anonymous portrait of Montesquieu (1728) 55
The Declaration of Inde pen dence (1776) 82
John Locke, by Godfrey Kneller (1697) 83
King George III, by Allan Ramsay (1760) 90
Signing the Declaration of Indep en dence, by John Trumbull (1819) 91
First page of the U.S. Constitution (1787) 105
Soup kitchen sponsored by Al Capone (1930s) 137