A triumph of primary-source research, The Founders? Constitution is a brilliant five-volume series that presents ?extracts from all the leading works of political theory, history, law, and constitutional argument on which the Framers and their contemporaries drew and which they themselves produced.?The documentary sources and inspirations of The Founders? Constitution reach to the early seventeenth century and extend through those Amendments to the Constitution that were adopted by 1835.In cooperation with the University of Chicago Press, Liberty Fund has prepared a new online edition of the entire work at: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/Philip B. Kurland was the William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor in the College and Professor in the Law School, University of Chicago.Ralph Lerner is the Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus in the College, and Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought, at the University of Chicago.