The framers' coup : the making of the United States Constitution /
"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...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Flaws in the Articles of Confederation
- Economic turmoil in the states and the road to Philadelphia
- The Constitutional Convention
- Slavery and the Constitutional Constitution
- Critics of the Constitution: the Antifederalists
- The ratifying contest
- The Bill of Rights
- Conclusion.
