On Memorial Day, I hit up a great used book store in Saint Louis and found a few books that I was too broke to buy. I did manage a few good ones, though.
an abridged version of The History of England, by G.M. Trevelyan c1942 - very good for my purposes right now, as I am reading Bailyn's The Ideology of the American Revolution[/i], and am quite lost on the English background of colonial political thought.
The Bill of Rights: Its Origin and Meaning,[/i] by Irving Brant c1965 - looks good
The Living US Constitution[/i], revised edition, by Saul K. Padover c1968 - I don't know if he coined the idea of "the Constitution is a living document" but it will be interesting to see what he has to say.
Intellectual History in America: Contemporary Essays on Puritanism, the Enlightenment, & Romanticism, ed. by Cushing Strout c1968 - goes along with the Bailyn book, I suppose