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Contested conventions : the struggle to establish the constitution and save the union, 1787-1789
"There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted the federal Constitution, fiercely debated its merits and failings, and adopted it, albeit with reservations. In Contested Conventions, senior historian Melvin Yazawa examines the political...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Constitution Day
- Part I. Creation: the critical period of American history
- A union of large and small states
- A union with slaveholders
- Part II. Ratification: stacking the deck
- Massachusetts and the first nine states
- Virginia matters
- New York joins the union
- North Carolina, the Bill of Rights, and the Madisonian exchange
- Epilogue: a new generation who know not us.