Cato, no. 3. The Founders' Constitution. Volumul 1, Capitolul 4, Documentul 16. University of Chicago Press. Accesat 22 ianuarie 2011.
Scrisoare a lui Madison către Jefferson, . "James Madison to Thomas Jefferson". The Founders' Constitution. Volumul 1, Capitolul 17, Documentul 22. University of Chicago Press. Accesat 22 ianuarie 2011.
Montesquieu, Spirit Of Laws, cap. xvi. vol. I, cartea VIII, citată în Brutus, No. 1. The Founders' Constitution. Volumul 1, Capitolul 4, Documentul 14. University of Chicago Press. Accesat 22 ianuarie 2011.
Brutus, No. 1. The Founders' Constitution. Volumul 1, Capitolul 4, Documentul 14. University of Chicago Press. Accesat 22 ianuarie 2011. "History furnishes no example of a free republic, any thing like the extent of the United States. The Grecian republics were of small extent; so also was that of the Romans. Both of these, it is true, in process of time, extended their conquests over large territories of country; and the consequence was, that their governments were changed from that of free governments to those of the most tyrannical that ever existed in the world".
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Ransom, Roger L. "Economics of the Civil War". Economic History Association. 24 august 2001. Citit la 20 noiembrie 2005. Citându-i pe Beard; Hacker; Egnal; Ransom și Sutch; Bensel; și McPherson, Ransom observă că: "regional economic specialization ... generated very strong regional divisions on economic issues ... economic changes in the Northern states were a major factor leading to the political collapse of the 1850s ... the sectional splits on these economic issues ... led to a growing crisis in economic policy".
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Vezi relatările și concluziile lui Storing, Vol 1, pp. 102–104, Kaminski, p. 131, pp. 309–310, și Wood, Creation, p. 489. De Pauw, pp. 290–292, îl preferă pe Abraham Yates(d).