For those who like to use Primary documents like myself, I discovered this online and thought I would pass on:
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
It is an anthology of writings from a wide array of people from the early 17th Cen. to the 1830’s, from the reflections of philosophers to pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day.
Rachel