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Online version of our primary text, Farrand's The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. (Choose from the drop-down menu).
"The Founder's Constitution,"edited by Philip B. Kurkland and Ralph Lerner. University of Chicago Press and Liberty Fund, 2000.

Related Works by Dougherty and Heckelman

"A Pivotal Voter from a Pivotal State: Roger Sherman at the Constitutional Convention ," American Political Science Review/, 2006, 100(2): 297-302.
"An Economic Interpretation of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 Revisited ," The Journal of Economic History, 2007, 67(4): 829-48.
"Voting on Slavery at the Constitutional Convention ," Public Choice, 2008, 136 (3-4): 293-313. Note: this paper won the 2009 Gordon Tullock Award for the best paper in Public Choice by younger scholars.
"Personalty Interests at the Constitutional Convention: New Tests of the Beard Thesis," (forthcoming in Cliometrica).

Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
"Suppressing Shays' Rebellion: Collective Action and Constitutional Design under the Articles of Confederation," with Michael Cain, Journal of Theoretical Politics,1999, 11(2): 233-260.
"Madison’s Theory of Public Goods" in Samuel Kernell ed. James Madison: The Theory and Practice of Government. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.