③相关论著有：Pauline Maier,"The Revolutionary Origins of the American Corporation," pp.51-84; Oscar Handlin and Mary Flug Handlin,Commonwealth:A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy:Massachusetts,1774-1861,New York:New York University Press,1947; "Incorporating the Republic; The Corporation in Antebellum Political Culture," Harvard Law Review,vol.102,no.8(Jun.1989),pp.1883-1903; Edwin Merrick Dodd,American Business Corporations until 1860:With Special Reference to Massachusetts,Cambridge,MA:Harvard University Press,1954; Ronald E.Seavoy,The Origins of the American Business Corporation,1784-1855:Broadening the Concept of Public Service during Industrialization,Westport,CT:Greenwood Press,1982; John Lauritz Larson,Internal Improvement:National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States,Chapel Hill,NC:University of North Carolina Press，2001;韩铁：《试论美国公司法向民主化和自由化方向的历史性演变》，《美国研究》2003年第4期；韩铁：《美国公司的历史演变和现代大企业的崛起》，《南开学报》2002年增刊。
    ④参见Oscar Handlin and Mary Flug Handlin,Commonwealth:A Study of the Role of Government in the American Economy:Massachusetts,1774-1861,pp.94-98.
    ⑤Pauline Maier,"The Revolutionary Origins of the American Corporation," pp.57-58,82.
    ⑥Andrew M.Schocket,Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia,DeKalb,IL:Northern Illinois University Press,2007,pp.81-82,89.
    ⑦William Blackstone,Commentaries on the Laws of England,vol.1,Philadelphia,1771,p.468,http://infoweb.newsbank.com/
    ⑧Stewart Kyd,A Treatise on the Law of Corporations,vol.1,London,1793-1794,pp.12-13,http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015031427589;view=lup;seq=43
    ⑨James Willard Hurst,The Legitimacy of the Business Corporation in the Law of the United States,1780-1970,Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia,1970,pp.1-3.
    ⑩Ron Harris,Industrializing English Law:Entrepreneurship and Business Organization,1720-1844,New York:Cambridge University Press,2000,pp.17-18,41,47.
    (11)李剑鸣：《美国的奠基时代(1585-1775)》，北京：中国人民大学出版社，2011年，第87、89页。
    (12)最先研究美国早期商业公司的学者西米恩·埃本·加尔德温(Simeon Eben Baldwin)将进行经济活动的公司称为“商业公司”，之后的学者沿用了商业公司的说法。参见Simeon Eben Baldwin,"American Business Corporations before 1789," The American Historical Review,vol.8,no.3(Apr.1903),pp.449-465; Joseph Stancliffe Davis,Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations,vol.2,Cambridge,MA:Harvard University Press,1917,p.3; Oscar Handlin and Mary F.Handlin,"Origins of the American Business Corporation," The Journal of Economic History,vol.5,no.1(May 1945),pp.1-23; Ronald E.Seavoy,The Origins of the American Business Corporation,1784-1855:Broadening the Concept of Public Service During Industrialization,pp.3-7.
    (13)“共和党”也称“民主共和党”。在美国18世纪末的文献中，党派冲突中的两派通常被时人称为“Federalist”和“Republican”。18世纪末的“Republican”不同于美国现代政党政治中的“共和党”，他们主张忠于美国革命精神与宪法，建立共和形式的政府，所以称之为“Republican”。之后的政治学家在论著中将其称为“Democratic Republican”，即“民主共和党”。而美国的大部分历史学论著中则仍然称其为“Republican”。文中为了与18世纪末美国文献保持一致，将“Republican”译为“共和党”。
    (14)John Adams,"An Address of the Convention," Journal of Convention for Framing a Constitution of Government for the State of Massachusetts Bay:From The Commencement of their First Session,September 1,1779,to the Close of their Last Session,June 16,1780,Boston,1832,p.216,http://books.google.com; John Adams,"A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America,against the Attack of M.Turgot,in his Letter to Dr.Price," in Charles Francis Adams,ed.,The Works of John Adams,vol.4,Boston:Little,Brown and Co.,1865,p.404.
    (15)李剑鸣：《“人民”的定义与美国早期的国家构建》，《历史研究》2009年第1期。
    (16)李剑鸣：《“共和”与“民主”的趋同--美国革命时期对“共和政体”的重新界定》，《史学集刊》2009年第5期。