A [Really] Short Bibliography

James Madison. Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison, 2d ed. Ohio University Press, 1987. ISBN-13 : 978-0821407653

Max Farrand. The Framing of the Constitution of the United States. Yale, 1913; Kindle, 2013.

Michael Kammen. The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History. Penguin, 1986.

Forrest McDonald. We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution. Routledge, 1991. ISBN-13 :  978-1560005742 (A response to Charles Beard’s influential 1913 book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, Free Press, 1913, 1935.)

Gordon Wood. The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787. UNC Press, 1998. ISBN-13 :  978-0807847237