Title	Published date	Author(s)	Purpose
Constitution	September 17, 1787	James Madison mostly but also 39 delegates signed	(2nd) Creation of federal government and its role in the states
Federalist Papers	Between October 1787 and May 1788.	James Madison, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton	Vote for the Constitution!
Declaration of Independence	July 4th, 1776	Thomas Jefferson and Congress	We are a new country now! Take THAT Britain!
Bill of Rights	1791	James Madison	The first ten amendments (the rights of the people)
English Bill of Rights	1689	James Madison	A series of laws that inscribed the rights of English men into law and enumerated parliamentary powers such as taxation. It was written after James II was overthrown after the Glorious Revolution.