books.google.com - Roots of the Republic shows how the Constitution was a product, not simply of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but of a legal and philosophical tradition almost two centuries old. The editors have selected eighteen key documents in the development of that tradition and reproduced them with essays...http://books.google.com/books/about/Roots_of_the_Republic.html?id=QlDPAtJXQu0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareRoots of the Republic
