Christopher R. Drahozal: The Supremacy Clause: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-31447-6 (google.com [abgerufen am 23. Juni 2021]).
Alison L. LaCroix: The Authority for Federalism: Madison's Negative and the Origins of Federal Ideology. In: Law and History Review. Band28, Nr.2, Mai 2010, ISSN1939-9022, S.451–505, doi:10.1017/S0738248010000064 (cambridge.org [abgerufen am 23. Juni 2021]).
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Alison L. LaCroix: The Authority for Federalism: Madison's Negative and the Origins of Federal Ideology. In: Law and History Review. Band28, Nr.2, Mai 2010, ISSN1939-9022, S.451–505, doi:10.1017/S0738248010000064 (cambridge.org [abgerufen am 23. Juni 2021]).
Morris J. MacGregor, Jr. und Robert K. Wright, Jr.: William Paterson. In: Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution. U.S. Army Center of Military History, archiviert vom Original am 23. Juni 2021; abgerufen am 23. Juni 2021 (englisch): „He was co-author of the New Jersey (or Paterson) Plan that asserted the rights of the small states by proposing a national legislature that, ignoring differences in size and population, gave equal voice to all the states. The proposal countered the Virginia Plan introduced by Edmund Randolph, which granted special recognition to differences in population and, therefore, favored the large states.“
Morris J. MacGregor, Jr. und Robert K. Wright, Jr.: William Paterson. In: Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution. U.S. Army Center of Military History, archiviert vom Original am 23. Juni 2021; abgerufen am 23. Juni 2021 (englisch): „He was co-author of the New Jersey (or Paterson) Plan that asserted the rights of the small states by proposing a national legislature that, ignoring differences in size and population, gave equal voice to all the states. The proposal countered the Virginia Plan introduced by Edmund Randolph, which granted special recognition to differences in population and, therefore, favored the large states.“
Alison L. LaCroix: The Authority for Federalism: Madison's Negative and the Origins of Federal Ideology. In: Law and History Review. Band28, Nr.2, Mai 2010, ISSN1939-9022, S.451–505, doi:10.1017/S0738248010000064 (cambridge.org [abgerufen am 23. Juni 2021]).
