5 Best Books on the US Constitution, selected by Stanley N. Katz

American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776-1989: A Global Perspective, by George A. Billias.  New York University Press, 2009.
The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788, by Jackson Turner Main.  University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, by Gordon S. Wood.  University of North Carolina Press, 1969.
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, by Jack Rakove.  Knopf, 1996.
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, by Pauline Maier.  Simon & Schuster, 2010.

Stanley N. Katz, Lecturer with the rank of Professor; Director, Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies; Woodrow Wilson School; Princeton University, [email protected], http://www.princeton.edu/~snkatz/.  Editor-in-Chief, Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, History of the United States Supreme Court (coeditor with Paul Freund, 1978-89; Oxford, 1990- );  Editor, The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford, 2009).