The Colonial Heritage

The Revolutionary Experience

The Articles of Confederation 

The Constitution

Federalists and Jeffersonians

George Washington, Presiding Officer 

Abraham Baldwin

Richard Bassett 

William Blount 

David Brearly 

Pierce Butler 

Jonathan Dayton 

John Dickinson 

William Few 

Thomas Fitzsimons 

Nicholas Gilman 

Alexander Hamilton 

Rufus King 

John Langdon 

William Livingston 

James McHenry 

Thomas Mifflin 

Gouverneur Morris 

Charles Pinckney 

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 

Richard Dobbs Spaight 

Hugh Williamson 

William Jackson, Secretary 

Bibliography of Soldier-Statesmen 

Gunning Bedford, Jr. 

John Blair 

Jacob Broom 

Daniel Carroll 

George Clymer 

Benjamin Franklin 

Nathaniel Gorham 

Jared Ingersoll 

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer 

William Samuel Johnson 

James Madison 

Robert Morris 

William Paterson 

George Read 

John Rutledge 

Roger Sherman 

James Wilson 

Resolution of the Continental Congress Adopting the Continental Army, 14 June 1775 

Resolution of the Continental Congress Appointing George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, 15 June 1775 

Washington's Commission as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, 17 June 1775 

Continental Congress' Declaration on the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms, 6 July 1775 

The Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776 

The Eighty-Eight Battalion Resolution of the Continental Congress Authorizing an Expanded Continental Army to Serve for the Duration of the War, 16 September 1776 

Resolutions of the Continental Congress Expanding the Continental Army and Extending Emergency Powers to Washington, 27 December 1776 

John Dickinson's Draft of the Articles of Confederation, 12 July 1776 

The Articles of Confederation, 1 March 1781 

Washington's Speech to the Officers of the Continental Army, Newburgh, New York, 15 March 1783 

Washington's Farewell Orders to the Armies of the United States, 2 November 1783 

Washington's Address to the Continental Congress Resigning His Commission as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, 23 December 1783 

Resolution of the Continental Congress Disbanding the Continental Army, 2 June 1784 

George Washington, Sentiments on a Peace Establishment, 2 May 1783 

Alexander Hamilton, Report of a Committee to the Continental Congress on a Military Peace Establishment, 18 June 1783 

Frederick Steuben, A Letter on the Subject of an Established Militia, and Military Arrangements, Addressed to the Inhabitants of the United States

Letter, George Washington to Frederick Steuben, 15 March 1784 

Resolution of the Continental Congress Creating the Peace Establishment, 3 June 1784 

Resolution of the Continental Congress Ascertaining the Powers and Duties of the Secretary at War, 27 January 1785 

Resolutions of the Continental Congress Renewing the Peace Establishment, 1, 7, and 12 April 1785 

Resolution of the Continental Congress Expanding the Peace Establishment, 20 October 1786 

Resolution of the Continental Congress Renewing the Peace Establishment, 3 October 1787 

The Virginia Plan, 29-30 May 1787 

The New Jersey Plan, 15 June 1787 

The Constitution of the United States of America, 17 September 1787 

Richard Henry Lee, "Observations leading to a fair examination of the system of government, proposed by the late Convention; and to several essential and necessary alterations in it. In a number of Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican," 1787 

Elbridge Gerry, "Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions By a Columbian Patriot," 1788 

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers

Number 3 (Jay) 

Number 24 (Hamilton) 

Number 25 (Hamilton) 

Number 26 (Hamilton) 

Number 28 (Hamilton) 

Number 29 (Hamilton) 

An Act to establish an Executive Department to be denominated the Department of War, 7 August 1789 

An Act to recognize and adapt to the constitution of the United States, the establishment of the troops raised under the resolves of the United States in Congress assembled and for, other purposes, 29 September 1789 

Henry Knox, Plan for the General Arrangement of the Militia of the United States, 18 January 1790 

An Act for regulating the Military Establishment of the United States, 30 April 1790 

An Act for raising and adding another regiment to the military establishment of the United States, and for making farther provision for the protection of the frontiers, 3 March 1791 

An Act for making farther and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States, 5 March 1792 

An Act supplemental to the act for making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States, 28 March 1792 

An Act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections and repel invasions, 2 May 1792 

An Act more effectually to provide for the national defense, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States, 8 May 1792 

An Act for raising and organizing a Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, 9 May 1794 

An Act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions; and to repeal the act now in force for those purposes, 28 February 1795 

An Act to ascertain and fix the military establishment of the United States, 30 May 1796 

An Act authorizing the President of the United States to raise a provisional army, 28 May 1798 

An Act supplementary to, and to amend, the Act entitled "An Act authorizing the President of the United States to raise a provisional army," 22 June 1798 

An Act to augment the army of the United States, and for other purposes, 16 July 1798 

An Act giving eventual authority to the President of the United States to augment the army, 2 March 1799 

An Act to suspend, in part, an Act, entitled "An Act to augment the army of the United States, and for other purposes," 20 February 1800 

An Act supplementary to the Act to suspend part of an Act, entitled "An Act to augment the army of the United States, and for other purposes," 14 May 1800 

An Act fixing the Military Peace Establishment of the United States, 16 March 1802 

An Act making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the Militia of the United States, 23 April 1808 

An Act declaring war between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof, and the United States of America and their Territories, 18 June 1812 

An Act fixing the Military Peace Establishment of the United States, 3 March 1815 

A. Annapolis Convention 

B. Committee Membership of the Constitutional Convention 

C. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention Who Did Not Sign 

D. Statistics 

1. Executive Branch Members With Active Military Service in the Revolution 

2. Supreme Court Justices With Active Military Service in the Revolution 

3. State Governors With Active Military Service in the Revolution 

4. US. Congress Members With Active Military Service in the Revolution (Arranged by Congress) 

5. US. Congress Members With Active Military Service in the Revolution (Arranged by State) 

6. Soldier-Statesmen of the Early Republic 

E. Amendments to the Constitution