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| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution , 1981 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Merrill Jensen, 1976 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: Ratification Pauline Maier, 2011-06-07 The dramatic story of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the first new account of this seminal moment in American history in years. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution , 2008 This is the fourth of five volumes documenting New York State's public and private debates about the Constitution and the calling of New York's ratifying convention; featuring newspaper items and letters, New York ratification chronologies, lists of New York officeholders, biographies of major figures, and many other documents and editors' notes. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Thomas H. Linley, Elizabeth M. Schoenleber, Gaspare J. Saladino, Timothy D. Moore, Dustin M. Cohan, Oindrila Chattopadhyay, Anna M. Biermeier, Christopher S. Berry, Sarah K. Danforth, Daniel J. Hoefs, 2023-10-24 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Provided by publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: Colonial Origins of the American Constitution Donald S. Lutz, 1998 Presents 80 documents selected to reflect Eric Voegelin's theory that in Western civilization basic political symbolizations tend to be variants of the original symbolization of Judeo-Christian religious tradition. These documents demonstrate the continuity of symbols preceding the writing of the Constitution and all contain a number of basic symbols such as: a constitution as higher law, popular sovereignty, legislative supremacy, the deliberative process, and a virtuous people. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE BILL. , 2024 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, 1976 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Provided by publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume 16 Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, 1976 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states: New York (1-5) Merrill Jensen, 1976 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution , 1995 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution John P. Kaminski, Merrill Jensen, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber, Margaret A. Hogan, 1976 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Provided by publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Pennsylvania Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, 1976 This third volume on the ratification campaign in Massachusetts completes the account of this powerful New England state whose influence determined the overall passage of the emerging Constitution. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Commentaries on the Constitution, public and private, 8 November to 17 December, 1787 Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, 1983 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Provided by publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: pt. 2. Edited by J. P. Kaminski and G. J.Saladino Merrill Jensen, 1983 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, 1788-1790 Merrill Jensen, Robert A. Becker, Gordon DenBoer, 1976 On spine: The first Federal elections, 1788-1790.Vols. 2-3: Gordon DenBoer, editor, Lucy Trumbull Brown, associate editor, Charles D. Hagermann, editorial assistant; v. 4: Gordon DenBoer, editor ... [et al.]. Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: New York (2) Merrill Jensen, 2004 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, 1976 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Commentaries on the Constitution, public and private, 21 February to 7 November, 1787 Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, 1981 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Commentaries on the Constitution, public and private, 18 December, 1787, to 31 January, 1788 Merrill Jensen, 1976 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: New York (3) Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, 2005 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Massachusetts (4) Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, 2001 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states : New York Merrill Jensen, 1976 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states: New York (3) Merrill Jensen, 1976 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: An Anti-Federalist Constitution Michael J. Faber, 2022-10-04 What would an Anti-Federalist Constitution look like? Because we view the Constitution through the lens of the Federalists who came to control the narrative, we tend to forget those who opposed its ratification. And yet the Anti-Federalist arguments, so critical to an understanding of the Constitution’s origins and meaning, resonate throughout American history. By reconstructing these arguments and tracing their development through the ratification debates, Michael J. Faber presents an alternative perspective on constitutional history. Telling, in a sense, the other side of the story of the Constitution, his book offers key insights into the ideas that helped to form the nation’s founding document and that continue to inform American politics and public life. Faber identifies three distinct strands of political thought that eventually came together in a clear and coherent Anti-Federalism position: (1) the individual and the potential for governmental tyranny; (2) power, specifically the states as defenders of the people; and (3) democratic principles and popular sovereignty. After clarifying and elaborating these separate strands of thought and analyzing a well-known proponent of each, Faber goes on to tell the story of the resistance to the Constitution, focusing on ideas but also following and explaining events and strategies. Finally, he produces a “counterfactual” Anti-Federalist Constitution, summing up the Anti-Federalist position as it might have emerged had the opposition drafted the document. How would such a constitution have worked in practice? A close consideration reveals the legacy of the Anti-Federalists in early American history, in the US Constitution and its role in the nation’s political life. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil Mark A. Graber, 2006-07-03 Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil , first published in 2006, concerns what is entailed by pledging allegiance to a constitutional text and tradition saturated with concessions to evil. The Constitution of the United States was originally understood as an effort to mediate controversies between persons who disputed fundamental values, and did not offer a vision of the good society. In order to form a 'more perfect union' with slaveholders, late-eighteenth-century citizens fashioned a constitution that plainly compelled some injustices and was silent or ambiguous on other questions of fundamental right. This constitutional relationship could survive only as long as a bisectional consensus was required to resolve all constitutional questions not settled in 1787. Dred Scott challenges persons committed to human freedom to determine whether antislavery northerners should have provided more accommodations for slavery than were constitutionally strictly necessary or risked the enormous destruction of life and property that preceded Lincoln's new birth of freedom. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Virginia (2) Merrill Jensen, 1976 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution's progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Merill Monroe Jensen, 1976 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Commentaries on the Constitution, public and private , 1976 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Framers' Coup Michael J. Klarman, 2016-09-16 Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to believe that they also had interests. Based on prodigious research and told largely through the voices of the participants, Michael Klarman's The Framers' Coup narrates how the Framers' clashing interests shaped the Constitution--and American history itself. The Philadelphia convention could easily have been a failure, and the risk of collapse was always present. Had the convention dissolved, any number of adverse outcomes could have resulted, including civil war or a reversion to monarchy. Not only does Klarman capture the knife's-edge atmosphere of the convention, he populates his narrative with riveting and colorful stories: the rebellion of debtor farmers in Massachusetts; George Washington's uncertainty about whether to attend; Gunning Bedford's threat to turn to a European prince if the small states were denied equal representation in the Senate; slave staters' threats to take their marbles and go home if denied representation for their slaves; Hamilton's quasi-monarchist speech to the convention; and Patrick Henry's herculean efforts to defeat the Constitution in Virginia through demagoguery and conspiracy theories. The Framers' Coup is more than a compendium of great stories, however, and the powerful arguments that feature throughout will reshape our understanding of the nation's founding. Simply put, the Constitutional Convention almost didn't happen, and once it happened, it almost failed. And, even after the convention succeeded, the Constitution it produced almost failed to be ratified. Just as importantly, the Constitution was hardly the product of philosophical reflections by brilliant, disinterested statesmen, but rather ordinary interest group politics. Multiple conflicting interests had a say, from creditors and debtors to city dwellers and backwoodsmen. The upper class overwhelmingly supported the Constitution; many working class colonists were more dubious. Slave states and nonslave states had different perspectives on how well the Constitution served their interests. Ultimately, both the Constitution's content and its ratification process raise troubling questions about democratic legitimacy. The Federalists were eager to avoid full-fledged democratic deliberation over the Constitution, and the document that was ratified was stacked in favor of their preferences. And in terms of substance, the Constitution was a significant departure from the more democratic state constitutions of the 1770s. Definitive and authoritative, The Framers' Coup explains why the Framers preferred such a constitution and how they managed to persuade the country to adopt it. We have lived with the consequences, both positive and negative, ever since. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: Regulatory Rights Larry Yackle, 2008-09-15 We often hear—with particular frequency during recent Supreme Court nomination hearings—that justices should not create constitutional rights, but should instead enforce the rights that the Constitution enshrines. In Regulatory Rights, Larry Yackle sets out to convince readers that such arguments fundamentally misconceive both the work that justices do and the character of the American Constitution in whose name they do it. It matters who sits on the Supreme Court, he argues, precisely because justices do create individual constitutional rights. Traversing a wide range of Supreme Court decisions that established crucial precedents about racial discrimination, the death penalty, and sexual freedom, Yackle contends that the rights we enjoy are neither more nor less than what the justices choose to make of them. Regulatory Rights is a bracing read that will be heatedly debated by all those interested in constitutional law and the judiciary. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states: Virginia (3) Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, 1976 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: A Revolution in Favor of Government Max M. Edling, 2008-07-08 What were the intentions of the Founders? Was the American constitution designed to protect individual rights? To limit the powers of government? To curb the excesses of democracy? Or to create a robust democratic nation-state? These questions echo through today's most heated legal and political debates. In this powerful new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling argues that the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of war making and resource extraction from the states to the national government thereby creating a nation-state invested with all the important powers of Europe's eighteenth-century fiscal-military states. A strong centralized government, however, challenged the American people's deeply ingrained distrust of unduly concentrated authority. To secure the Constitution's adoption the Federalists had to accommodate the formation of a powerful national government to the strong current of anti-statism in the American political tradition. They did so by designing a government that would be powerful in times of crisis, but which would make only limited demands on the citizenry and have a sharply restricted presence in society. The Constitution promised the American people the benefit of government without its costs. Taking advantage of a newly published letterpress edition of the constitutional debates, A Revolution in Favor of Government recovers a neglected strand of the Federalist argument, making a persuasive case for rethinking the formation of the federal American state. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution John P. Kaminski, 1981 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Constitution in the Supreme Court David P. Currie, 1992-09 Currie's masterful synthesis of legal analysis and narrative history, gives us a sophisticated and much-needed evaluation of the Supreme Court's first hundred years. A thorough, systematic, and careful assessment. . . . As a reference work for constitutional teachers, it is a gold mine.—Charles A. Lofgren, Constitutional Commentary |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Ratification of the Constitution by the states: New York (4) Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, 1976 This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution'̕s progress through each of the thirteen states' conventions. -- Publisher. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution: Commentaries on the Constitution, public and private (1-6) Merrill Jensen, 1976 |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Constitution Before the Judgment Seat Jürgen Heideking, 2012 Heideking's work anticipated diverse strands of subsequent scholarship; this translation can claim to provide not only an invaluable account of the ratification debates but a master narrative for integrating future studies. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: Federalists and Antifederalists John P. Kaminski, Richard Leffler, 1998 For a quarter of a century between 1763 and 1788, Americans intensely debated the nature of government and the need to protect individual liberties. The debate climaxed in the arguments over the ratification of the Constitution. Through a selection of essential documents from 1787 and 1788, this new edition gives readers the flavor and immediacy of the great debate in all its fire, brilliance, and political intensity. Organized by topic, this is a convenient reference and teaching tool. This updated edition contains an entirely new section on the debate over class structure, property rights, and the economy under the proposed Constitution--an ideal introduction to a debate meaningful today. |
| documentary history of the ratification of the constitution: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution Merrill Jensen, 1976 |
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